says who ? the one who gave up galwan valley "without" a fight.
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nobody will go on full confrontation for a small piece of land (for now), in my perspective this is a tactical victory for china, and huge strategic victory for the Indo-Pacific, a more hostile India will equate to the Increasing pressure towards china from the west all the while the US and it's allies (Japan) put pressure in the east. from an Indonesian perspective, this is good.
I do understand that china has been allocating more and more funds for the PLAN and PLAAF while reducing their share for the PLAGF, because china felt that itt's land border are secured enough. Hostilities with India could reverse that.
you forget the very fact that China is your direct neighbour .
Malaysia and Australia are actually our direct neighbor
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put missiles and hypersonic glide vehicles aside . your capital came under their Rocket Artillery's Range . they "mass produce" that .
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I do understand that India too has a missile arsenal that can reach beijing
usa want india to be the front player in such war . the question is could india afford it ?
hell no .
is india ready to face a nasty war "for usa"?
hell no......................, if they face china alone, even the USA will need help. there is no single nation solution for china, it requires the cooperation of the entire major Indo-Pacific Powers. USA+JAPAN+SK+AUSTRALIA+INDIA with an addition of middle powers like INDONESIA+MALAYSIA+VIETNAM.
china has jut manage to make a future alliance against them
https://www.japantimes.co.jp/opinio...ld-commentary/china-worst-enemy/#.Xua0M0UzaUk
you are just considering a fictional naval war scenario. .
the only one with some fantasy naval scenario here are the OP, encircling china???? did you actually know the balance between India and china in the IOR????
the OP stated that china has been encircling India with bases and allies such as Bangladesh,Pakistan,Myanmar etc but forgots that china herself are being encircled by enemies ranging from the US,Japan,Taiwan,SK,Vietnam and in the near future Indonesia and Australia.
major ASEAN Navies (Indonesia,Malaysia,Veitnam) are more potent than these navies the OP mentioned.