Is an India-China arms race brewing?

[RayKalm]

Is an India-China arms race brewing? - Inside Story - Al Jazeera English

On Saturday, the Indian armed forces ended a major military exercise near the Chinese border, while China has announced that it will increase its military spending by 11.2 per cent in 2012.

"For India, it's the continental China that is the primary threat and challenge, rather than the maritime China, which is what most western analysts see because they are more concerned with oceanic sea lanes connecting western economies with Asia. This is a secondary priority for India."

- Zorowar Daulet Singh, a research fellow at the Center for Policy Alternatives

The four-day exercise, codenamed "Pralay" or devastation, tested a wide range of defence capabilities.

Almost all major aircraft types operating within the Indian air force were involved in the drill, most of which took place in the disputed state of Arunachal Pradesh.

For years, Sino-Indian bilateral relations have been affected by the dispute over Arunachal Pradesh, a territory bordered on the north by the Tibet region of China. While it has been administered by India as a state since 1987, China still claims most of it as part of the Tibet Autonomous Region.

The exercise also coincided with an official visit by Yang Jeichi, the Chinese foreign minister, to India.

 

[iajj]

i welcome it - if we can drain indians of their last drop of blood in an arms race, it will be a huge boon to all the neighbors bullied and threatened by indian grabbiness.

 

[Agnostic_Indian]

i welcome it - if we can drain indians of their last drop of blood in an arms race, it will be a huge boon to all the neighbors bullied and threatened by indian grabbiness.

ha ha this is what happens in India pak arms race. we are still spending less than 3% of gdp for defence.

 

[iajj]

ha ha this is what happens in India pak arms race. we are still spending less than 3% of gdp for defence.

this is NOT happening between pakistan and india. the former has done no wrong to its neighbors and indian aggression and rivalry with it serves only india and its ego and greed and not the greater good of central, south, or west asia.

 

[Shardul.....the lion]

this is NOT happening between pakistan and india. the former has done no wrong to its neighbors and indian aggression and rivalry with it serves only india and its ego and greed and not the greater good of central, south, or west asia.

Living in your dreams, ask afghanis or indians, whether pakistan has done any harm to them.

They have destroyed entire afghan nation by supporting talibannies, and attacked India four times in last century.

 

[Aramsogo]

i welcome it - if we can drain indians of their last drop of blood in an arms race, it will be a huge boon to all the neighbors bullied and threatened by indian grabbiness.

No country can win an arms race against China. US can't because it's costs are so much higher. India cant either since it has to import everything. If US goes to war with Iran, that will greatly benefit China. Hopefully, India will jack up its defence spending too.

 

[MilSpec]

No country can win an arms race against China. US can't because it's costs are so much higher. India cant either since it has to import everything. If US goes to war with Iran, that will greatly benefit China. Hopefully, India will jack up its defence spending too.

No country can win arms race against china??.... well please dont bring in US... you will not get close to them in decades...India, will not race you because neither do we have the resources nor the intent.

three different countries have different roles.. different models , different growth rate and different spots in global balance. China and US although are comparable in trade, manufacturing etc, India barely comes into that scenario.

So lets not compare India and china in any respect but that doesn't mean you start comparing china and US in defence matters ... they still are giants.

 

[A1Kaid]

In the coming years Hindustan will be forced to spend more on Defence allocating less funds for civil projects. Militarization of AP/South Tibet is already underway and that is only the beginning.

 

[Rusty]

Living in your dreams, ask afghanis or indians, whether pakistan has done any harm to them.

They have destroyed entire afghan nation by supporting talibannies, and attacked India four times in last century.

If the Afghans themselves never supported Taliban then how come they Taliban are so effective in Afghanistan now?
Or even against the Soviets?

India occupied a province that it had no business occupying, the 65 war was a war of liberation
the 71 was Indian aggression in East Pakistan and there was not "4th war" it was just a skirmish.

So at the end of the day, the whole problem in South Asia is purely India's making.
Pakistan never once occupied Indian land.

 

[oct605032048]

Living in your dreams, ask afghanis or indians, whether pakistan has done any harm to them.

They have destroyed entire afghan nation by supporting talibannies, and attacked India four times in last century.

Had they not support the Taliban, Afghanistan would have become part of Soviet Union.

 

[Shardul.....the lion]

Had they not support the Taliban, Afghanistan would have become part of Soviet Union.

So according to you afghanis were better under talibani rule...?

Yes with no music, girls education stopped, no TV no movies, floggings, stoning to death,

We must ask a afghan person was he happy under taliban rule?

 

[MilSpec]

If the Afghans themselves never supported Taliban then how come they Taliban are so effective in Afghanistan now?
Or even against the Soviets?

India occupied a province that it had no business occupying, the 65 war was a war of liberation
the 71 was Indian aggression in East Pakistan and there was not "4th war" it was just a skirmish.

So at the end of the day, the whole problem in South Asia is purely India's making.
Pakistan never once occupied Indian land.

taliban is a product of pakistani funded militants from afghan refugee camps... there were a handful of mujhahideens who fought the russians in taliban... the mujhahideens who fought the soviets got involved in bloody civilwar in afganistan after the soviets left.

65 was a war of liberation??please for heavens sake learn history...and 71 was a skirmish???? ----that saw unilateral surrender of pakistani forces and one of the greatest pow's since world war... please start using some logic!!

 

[MilSpec]

In the coming years Hindustan will be forced to spend more on Defence allocating less funds for civil projects. Militarization of AP/South Tibet is already underway and that is only the beginning.

In coming years what will lead to such anomaly... when India didn't do such a thing when china attacked india, pakistan attacked thrice and was the beneficiary to nearly unlimited US military aid.... when India was reeling with poverty and backwardness we did not hike our military expenses... what makes you think we will be forced to hike our defence budget to unbearable limits.... India is run by coalition of different parties representing every school of thought... with a nation whose political scene is a mishmash of business planers educational reformists, liberal youths socialist politicians and some scumbags .. i doubt any drastic suicidal plans would be set on course despite your wishfull thinking.....

 

[hawx]

In the coming years Hindustan will be forced to spend more on Defence allocating less funds for civil projects. Militarization of AP/South Tibet is already underway and that is only the beginning.

and this will lead pakistan to increase even further and ultimately lead to bankruptcy.

 

[Sasquatch]

No not really.

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For economy size we spend the right amount on our defense, while improving the living standards and proving the basics for our people.