Tackling China: Time to rewrite India playbook?

September 01, 2020 15:48

How should India handle the challenge posed by China at the Line of Actual Control?

Strategic analyst Manoj Joshi offers a perspective in a paper for the Observer Research Foundation.

'India knows that given the asymmetry with China, it is simply not possible to deal with it through its own resources. New Delhi will have to add heft to its position through diplomacy in the Indo-Pacific region and elsewhere to ensure that Beijing begins to address Indian concerns seriously,' he writes.

'The Sino-Indian border is unlikely to assume the status of Fravel's primary strategic direction. But India can, and should, sharply escalate its military capacity, generally, as well as along the LAC, and adopt a posture that will enhance the importance of the "south-west direction' in Chinese calculations. India already occupies strong defensive positions along the LAC, but Indian military capabilities are defensive and erratic: good in certain places, but mediocre and poor in most.

'Some capabilities are already causing China worry in parts of the LAC, but boosting them to pose a significant challenge to China beyond Tibet is a different level of enterprise, given India's current economic predicament. Yet that may be the only route available to persuade Beijing of the importance of stability that it could obtain by settling its border with India,' Joshi writes, here.

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