Reashot Xigwin
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This is mostly about accountability. If China can't even be bothered to list their dead how can they even be trusted with anything? Barrack rumor is a nasty thing to those who have served or so I have been told. What do you think the soldiers would feel if one of their own have died but not even listed as K.I.A? The family & public will no doubt are going to start asking questions.Since China may not has any fatalities, so it is impossible for the dead to be remembered for them, unless they are to remember the dead indians?
Besides, there will be many tapes and pictures about this events, they usually show this to the PLA soldiers internally, whilst since PLA released all the captives back to india, despite of whatever indian novelists' stories, these soldiers with first-hand experience will tell their stories internally among the frontline indians.
So morale for both sides are the least thing China needs to worry about, all of the retired PLA soldiers or even high-rank officers talking about this event in a mocking tune nowadays in China's social networks.
Besides, if you believe war is fight by morale, then you are sadly mistaken, war is mostly fight by strategies, technologies, organizations and disciplines, these are the essence of a military power, without these morale can quickly collapse when the tide is not on your side.
Besides all others, the lack of organization and disciplines are the primary weakness of indian military force, thats the impression the old-gen PLA officers/soldiers had with indians, and this impression has been reinforced among the PLA military cycles in this recent encounter.
Thats why the one thing that the PLA or even the outside, like the americans, observed that the morales of indians can collapse overnight (According to the americans, during the 1962 war the US witnessed how a huge country like india lost its entire confidence and morale just overnight and at an epic scale).
Because without organization and disciplines, morale is just a mirage, especially morale built upon internet rumors without any proof.
This is face-saving political move pure & simple. What odd is that the real numbers would be revealed anyway so it's essentially a pointless move on the CCP part.