{"id":207159,"date":"2022-09-22T20:08:32","date_gmt":"2022-09-22T14:38:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=207159"},"modified":"2022-09-22T20:08:32","modified_gmt":"2022-09-22T14:38:32","slug":"a-risky-new-status-quo-on-india-china-border-related-issues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/a-risky-new-status-quo-on-india-china-border-related-issues\/","title":{"rendered":"A risky new status quo \u2013 On India-China Border Related Issues"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Source<\/strong>: The post is based on an article\u00a0\u201c<\/strong>A risky new status quo\u201d <\/strong>published in\u00a0The Hindu<\/strong>\u00a0on\u00a0212nd <\/sup>September 2022<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Syllabus: GS 2 \u2013 India and its Neighborhood<\/strong><\/p>\n

News: <\/strong>China and India\u2019s discussion on demilitarization of some conflict points have made a little progress. But it doesn\u2019t mean that the threat is reduced. \u00a0\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

China and India have agreed to completely disengage from Patrolling Point 15 (PP15). This will create a demilitarized buffer zone. However, even after demilitarizing India faces many risks.<\/p>\n

What are the risks present for India?<\/strong><\/h5>\n

Buffer zone:<\/strong> The buffer zone created by demilitarizing reduces India\u2019s ability to patrol its own territory.<\/p>\n

The buffer zone and Depsang\u2019s status both suit China\u2019s objectives because they limit India\u2019s military activities near the LAC. This has led to China\u2019s invasion in 2020.<\/p>\n

Military Disengagement: <\/strong>Demilitarizing has not led to diminishing military threat at the border. This is evident from building of permanent military infrastructure from both countries near the border.<\/p>\n

China has left India behind in building roads, helipads, and communications nodes. Therefore, coming to status quo is nearly impossible.<\/p>\n

Tension at LAC:<\/strong> China still claims Arunachal Pradesh as its own territory. The growing military build-up of China can increase pressure anywhere at LAC.<\/p>\n

There is also possibility of war between the two nations.<\/p>\n

Prioritizing land border:<\/strong> The land border has become the highest priority in India\u2019s military competition with China.<\/p>\n

India has reassigned one of three Pakistan-facing Strike Corps to the China front along with its newest artillery, fighter jets, and drones to the China border. This has led away India\u2019s attention form Indian Ocean region.<\/p>\n

Although India has capabilities in the oceanic region such as indigenously-built aircraft carrier, cruise missile-equipped fighters but these were initiated before the border crisis.<\/p>\n

The dominating power in Asia will be determined by the dominating forces in the Indian Ocean region. Therefore, India needs to reorganize its priorities.<\/p>\n

However, the disengagement is still helpful for India.<\/p>\n

How the disengagement will be helpful for India?<\/strong><\/h5>\n

The disengagement at PP15 has the potential to improve the trap set by China.<\/p>\n

This will help India to reduce its focus of military preparedness at the border and work towards long-term military modernisation across the Indian Ocean region.<\/p>\n

However, prioritizing other issues such as Atmanirbharta in defence industry at the expense of modernization of military poses a threat to India.<\/p>\n

What can be further course of action?<\/strong><\/h5>\n

India needs a long term growth in its capabilities (military, policies, etc.) to face the challenge posed by China in the Indian Ocean region.<\/p>\n

This requires a rational strategic assessment and the political will to balance military preparedness with modernisation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Source: The post is based on an article\u00a0\u201cA risky new status quo\u201d published in\u00a0The Hindu\u00a0on\u00a0212nd September 2022. Syllabus: GS 2 \u2013 India and its Neighborhood News: China and India\u2019s discussion on demilitarization of some conflict points have made a little progress. But it doesn\u2019t mean that the threat is reduced. \u00a0\u00a0 China and India have… Continue reading A risky new status quo \u2013 On India-China Border Related Issues<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10320,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1230,9],"tags":[212,10498],"class_list":["post-207159","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-9-pm-daily-articles","category-public","tag-gs-paper-2","tag-the-hindu","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":1700781601,"cached_date":1704749757},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207159","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10320"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=207159"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207159\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=207159"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=207159"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=207159"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}