{"id":238756,"date":"2023-04-19T21:28:45","date_gmt":"2023-04-19T15:58:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=238756"},"modified":"2023-04-19T21:28:45","modified_gmt":"2023-04-19T15:58:45","slug":"a-message-for-the-planners-in-dealing-with-the-dragon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/a-message-for-the-planners-in-dealing-with-the-dragon\/","title":{"rendered":"A message for the planners in dealing with the Dragon"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Source-<\/strong> The post is based on the article \u201cA message for the planners in dealing with the Dragon\u201d published in \u201cThe Hindu\u201d on 19th April 2023.<\/p>\n

Syllabus: <\/strong>GS2- Bilateral groupings and agreements<\/p>\n

Relevance<\/strong>– India and China bilateral relationship<\/p>\n

News<\/strong>– Recently, China remanded 11 places in Arunachal Pradesh. There was also denial of visas to some Indian media personnel who the Chinese consider to be \u2018unhelpful\u2019 in their reporting.<\/p>\n

Why does China need to be taken seriously?<\/strong><\/h2>\n

Some experts consider China\u2019s President Xi Jinping as less of a Sun Tzu follower<\/strong>. He is close to Mao who believes in power flowing through the barrel of a gun.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Some experts argue that Xi Jinping should be taken seriously when he says that he is preparing China for war. <\/strong><\/p>\n

He has called for working together, dare to fight, break out of dependence on foreign technologies and<\/strong> rally behind the People\u2019s Liberation Army to make China great again.<\/p>\n

There have been border talks with China and post-talks statement of \u2018working together to maintain peace\u2019. Such long drawn out negotiations appear to be purely tactical position<\/strong>s. But it needs to be viewed through a strategic prism. <\/strong><\/p>\n

What are the issues with the capability of the Indian armed forces?<\/strong><\/h2>\n

The Parliamentary Standing Committee on Defence, in its March 2023 <\/strong>report has shown the shortcomings in defence hardware and equipments with Indian armed forces<\/p>\n

The committee has commented adversely on the slow production rate of the Tejas fighter <\/strong>by Hindustan Aeronautics Limited. It noted that the IAF\u2019s urgent need to make up its dwindling squadron numbers<\/strong> through the 114 Multi Role Fighter Aircraft project.<\/p>\n

Similar observations have been made for hardware procurement for the Indian Army<\/strong>. The committee has acknowledged that funds are scarce<\/strong>. It has recommended that allocation for defence should be 3% of GDP to maintain India\u2019s deterrent posture.<\/p>\n

The ongoing one-year-plus Russia-Ukraine conflict<\/strong> has shown that power is not just about possessing capability<\/strong> but also about the capacity-to-last-the-distance too<\/strong>. India\u2019s acquisition plans must be oriented accordingly.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Source- The post is based on the article \u201cA message for the planners in dealing with the Dragon\u201d published in \u201cThe Hindu\u201d on 19th April 2023. Syllabus: GS2- Bilateral groupings and agreements Relevance– India and China bilateral relationship News– Recently, China remanded 11 places in Arunachal Pradesh. There was also denial of visas to some… Continue reading A message for the planners in dealing with the Dragon<\/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-238756","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":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238756","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=238756"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238756\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=238756"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=238756"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=238756"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}