The Indian Raja Menon has publicly stated that he could trap Chinese merchant ships in the Nikebar Islands off India's eastern flank and then hunt Chinese fleets in the Strait of Malacca to rescue them. He probably didn't know that the PLA's Army Group was able to suppress New Delhi directly from the western border.
Recently, Raja Menon, who served as assistant chief of staff of the Indian Navy, publicly stated that if the Indian Army could not defeat the PLA on the Himalayas, it should use the Indian Navy to act quickly to trap Chinese merchant ships in the Keba Islands off the eastern side of India, and then set up a killing zone in the Strait of Malacca to hunt down Chinese naval fleets to rescue. The more fleets the Chinese sent, the heavier the losses, interrupting China's rise. It seems that this Raja Menon is really a high counselor in the Indian army.
India, from the government elite to the common people, has a strange mentality, that is, to regard themselves as the heirs of the British Empire, and feel that India has the advanced technology, strong military and international influence of Britain. If you push back to 1840, if the British navy wants to intercept the Merchant Ships of the Chinese Qing Dynasty in Malacca, it is really a matter of hand.
The Strait of Malacca has always been a very important passageway in China's economic security and trade security, and we need to export products to South Asia, West Asia and Europe through the Strait of Malacca, as well as import oil from the Persian Gulf through the Strait of Malacca. Therefore, the Malacca dilemma has always been an important topic in China's strategic security. But so far, the only person qualified to create a dilemma for China in Malacca is the United States. With the exception of the United States, all countries associated with Malacca, including Vietnam, Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia, and India, are unlikely to influence China's rational use of the Malacca shipping lanes. On the positive side, China is a peace-loving country, and China has worked hard to engage in economic construction in recent decades and has become an important engine of the world's world economy. All the countries mentioned above have benefited from China's rapid development. If the Malacca route is interrupted, affecting China's economic operation, it will not be a good thing for these countries. On the flip side, all the countries we are talking about related to Malacca, adding up their military might, must not be China's opponents. And almost all of them are within range of Chinese firepower. Committed to offend China? Unless it's the brain that's in the water.
However, in India, people with water in their brains abound. When we look at the military history documents since the founding of India, there are quite a few self-talk that cannot describe the real history and does not conform to the real logic. For example, in the literature describing the Sino-Indian border conflict in 1962, we see how the Indian army fought heroically and won more with less, and according to the descriptions and records of those documents, it was the Indian army that won the war. It is conceivable what the impact of such a historical record on Indians is. We can say with relative certainty that Indian military theory researchers lack a clear understanding and rigorous logical thinking about the concept of war, and they have no understanding of the characteristics and laws of modern warfare. In their view, fighting a war is a small map drawn, and the opponent will definitely enter the battlefield according to his own script. This kind of typical Don Quixote thinking, in the modern war, the most objective and true, the most emphasis on comprehensive strength and intellectual thinking, it is strange not to touch the head and bleed!
What trouble can India get china in the Strait of Malacca? The Strait of Malacca is a narrow flared strait to the east and wide to the west, and has always been known as a strategic choke. Most of the sea areas are still very wide, even wider than the Taiwan Strait. The most dangerous part of the Strait of Malacca is on the Indian Ocean side, but near Singapore on the Pacific side. As we can see from the chart, the real key to the lock, the deep-water waterway on the east side, is located in Singapore's territorial waters, which has made Singapore one of the largest ports in the world. India was able to influence the western exit of the Strait of Malacca, with a water surface width of 370 km. Only a naval and air strike force as powerful as the U.S. Navy can effectively blockade and control this area, which the Indian Navy does not have. In addition, China and India are bordered by land, and any offensive action taken by India against China in the Strait of Malacca will inevitably attract retaliation on the land border. China's ground and air superiority over India is clear, and it can directly suppress India's capital, New Delhi, from the western border alone by relying solely on the firepower of the People's Liberation Army Army Group Army. Some people may say, if this reaction is not a little excessive? Considering the strategic significance of the Strait of Malacca to China's foreign trade and the value of China's social stability, if India intercepts Chinese merchant ships in the Strait of Malacca, then we cannot think of any reaction as excessive.