The Indian army has selected 19 "preset battlefields" in the disputed area of the Sino-Indian border, arranged the encirclement in advance, and waited for the PLA to rush into it in the future operation?
Recently, the Indian side has conveyed a series of contradictory messages on issues such as the Sino-Indian border, Sino-Indian relations, and Sino-Indian military confrontation. The Sino-Indian border issue has temporarily stabilized with the 21 rounds of commander-level negotiations, but the Indian government is desperately increasing investment in border infrastructure construction, and the Indian media has been touting that with these infrastructures, India will gain an advantage in the next conflict with China;
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi recently made a speech on the "softening" of China policy, saying that the relationship with China is very important for India, and the two countries need to urgently resolve the long-term situation on the border in order to put the anomalies in bilateral interaction behind.
(Made by netizens: Schematic diagram of the Sino-Indian border issue.) See watermark for source)
Just a few days ago, Susant Singh, a well-known Indian scholar, publicly revealed that according to the internal report of the "Indo-Tibet Border Police Force" (ITBP), the Indian army has designated 19 "sensitive points" that may occur in future military conflicts between China and India as preset battlefields, and the Indian army is strengthening the deployment and deployment of troops in a targeted manner, and building various fortifications including new border posts. This move is equivalent to building and presetting the battlefield in advance according to the Indian army's own expectations, taking the "geographical advantage", and then waiting for the PLA to plunge headlong into the encirclement in possible future operations.
Susante did not disclose the exact location of these "sensitive points", but India's Home Ministry later responded "in a "cover-up" manner that the ITBP had not submitted a similar report, and India's Ministry of Defense rarely refused to respond. Judging from the construction of border infrastructure in India in recent years, there is a high probability that such a preset battlefield exists, and we must be prepared for this. However, for these preset battlefields, the Indian side may be wishful thinking again. Here are a few questions to ask:
- If a large-scale conflict breaks out between China and India, will China confine itself to fighting India at these pre-positioned locations along the border? The answer is of course not, our air force and rocket force have absolute superiority over India, and we will attack India in depth. You must know that the urban area of New Delhi is only more than 300 kilometers away from the Tibetan border, and it is within the range of our army's long-range rocket artillery.
- If a large-scale conflict breaks out between China and India, will the PLA Army plunge headlong into the encirclement of the Indian army? The answer is of course not, our army's reconnaissance force has absolute superiority over India, and we are very clear about where they have deployed and built their positions, just like the Maginot Line built by France before World War II, and these deployments of the Indian army are meaningless. We will definitely destroy these preset battlefields as soon as possible.
(Made by netizens: Compared with the artillery establishment of the Chinese and Indian armies, the firepower of the Chinese Army is more than 4 times that of the Indian Army)
- If a large-scale conflict breaks out between China and India, will the PLA Army adopt a soldier-to-soldier combat method with the Indian Army? The answer is of course not, the PLA Army has long since been transformed into a combat force with artillery as the core, and under the premise of a large-scale war, we will not send soldiers to bear the danger if we can use artillery to bombard the peace. The artillery strength of the PLA Army is three to four times that of the Indian Army, and the Indian Army has no capital to fight at all.
So, what's the use of those preset battlefields?
(India's 2023 road construction plan in the so-called Ladakh region drawn by mainland netizens.) See watermark for the source)
We cannot be "fooled" into Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi's "soft" remarks. The "China-India border issue" he refers to the large-scale confrontation between the two countries on the border since 2020, and does not involve territorial sovereignty negotiations. With regard to India's sovereignty over southern Tibet and a series of territorial sovereignty issues near the Line of Actual Control (LAC) on the Western Front, India does not want to talk about it at all.
The logic conveyed by Modi is the same as that that of Indian Foreign Minister S Jaishankar in recent years, which is that "we in India want to resolve the Sino-Indian border dispute, but there is no progress, so what is the problem? Of course, it is China."
Today, anti-China has become the consensus of the Indian government and the opposition, and "de-Sinicization" and "replacing China's status as the world's factory" are Modi's strategic choices. Against the backdrop of continued all-out competition or confrontation between China and the United States, the Modi government believes that India has ushered in a rare "period of strategic opportunity", on the one hand, it has made every effort to accelerate its economic development and enhance its comprehensive national strength, and on the other hand, it has become eager to try on the border dispute, and there is no lack of impulse to carry out military adventures. It can be said that the game between China and India on the border issue has entered a stage of unilateral confidence in India.
India's economy has grown rapidly in recent years, with GDP growth expanding to 8.4% in the fourth quarter of 2023, and although even the Western media generally believe that this figure contains water, there is no doubt that India's economy is growing rapidly.
This has made India's infrastructure capacity in the high-altitude areas of the Sino-Indian border indeed much stronger than before. In addition, the international environment is indeed more favorable to India, and the United States has been "leading but not triggering" the Sino-Indian border issue, so it is no wonder that India, which has always been arrogant, has become more self-confident.
(U.S. satellite photos now show China starting large-scale construction of underground bunkers in the Aksai Chin region)
However, India's so-called infrastructure capacity is completely insignificant compared to China's "infrastructure madness". For example, India's infrastructure on the Sino-Indian border is still in the stage of building houses and roads, and the scale of China's construction in Tibet and Xinjiang is many times smaller, and in terms of military facilities, China has begun to build large-scale underground bunkers to defend against nuclear attacks, and the Indian side has not even touched the door.
Therefore, the PLA is fully capable and confident in firmly controlling the border areas and ensuring that "not an inch will be missing" in the great rivers and mountains in our northwest.