China scores bloodless victory over India: Chellaney

May 12, 2013 11:21

Brahma Chellaney writes for the Economic Times: In a classic replay of its old game, China intruded stealthily into a strategic border area in Ladakh and then disingenuously played conciliator by counselling "patience", "wisdom" and "negotiations".

The incursion bore all the hallmarks of Chinese brinkmanship, including taking an adversary by surprise, seizing an opportunistic timing, masking offence as defence, and discounting risks of wider escalation. Occurring at a time when India has never been so politically weak, the intrusion was shrewdly timed to exploit its political paralysis and leadership drift.

What China did was to impudently violate border-peace agreements with India by employing coercive power on the ground. Then '" armed with the leverage from its encroachment into the Debsang plateau '" it embarked on coercive diplomacy by setting out military demands for India to meet.

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