India- China face off : What you should know ?

History:

Sino-Indian War - 1962

 A disputed Himalayan border was the main cause of the war, but other issues also played a role. There had been a series of violent border skirmishes between the two countries after the 1959 Tibetan uprising, when India granted asylum to the Dalai Lama.

Chinese military action grew increasingly aggressive after India rejected proposed Chinese diplomatic settlements throughout 1960–1962, with China re-commencing previously-banned "forward patrols" in Ladakh from 30 April 1962. China finally abandoned all attempts of peaceful resolution on 20 October 1962, invading disputed territory along the 3,225 kilometre- (2,000-mile-) long Himalayan border in Ladakh and across the McMahon Line. Chinese troops advanced over Indian forces in both theatres, capturing Rezang La in Chushul in the western theatre, as well as Tawang in the eastern theatre. The war ended when China declared a ceasefire on 20 November 1962, and simultaneously announced its withdrawal to its claimed "Line of Actual Control".

Sino-Indian War - 1987

Since the late 1960s, India had developed an elaborate plan to defend the Himalayan frontier with China. This involved the provision of screening defences at the Line of Actual Control, or LAC, and the building of strong defence nodes at key points along the frontier. By the early 1980s, while the forces to man the defences were ready, the nodes were not, and the greatest weakness was in the fact that the servicing road network had not been built. The decision was taken to resume the defence infrastructure construction.

 After the 1980 review, it was decided by the military strategists that it was important to defend Tawang in a future conflict. The army made it clear that the only viable line of defence for Tawang would be along the Hathung La ridge. In 1983, an Intelligence Bureau team went to the pasturage of Sumdorong Chu which is north-east of the confluence of the Namka Chu and Nyamjiang Chu. The defence forces stayed through the summer and returned in winter. This procedure was followed for two years. In 1986, Indian forces found that the Chinese had preceded them and set up semi-permanent structures there. .

At the end of 1986, India granted statehood to Arunachal Pradesh.In early 1987 Beijing's tone became similar to that of 1962, and with the Indian Army refusing to stand down, Western diplomats predicted war.Both India and China realised the danger of inadvertent conflict and after initial posturing the decision was made to de-escalate their deployments. The Sumdorong Chu fallout was that India and China decided to restart their dialogue on a new and more urgent basis. Finally in 1993, the two countries signed an agreement to ensure peace along the LAC.

 Dhoklam standoff -2017

Doklam is an area disputed between China and Bhutan located near their tri-junction with India. Unlike China and Bhutan, India does not claim Doklam but supports Bhutan's claim.

 On 16 June 2017 Chinese troops with construction vehicles and road-building equipment began extending an existing road southward in Doklam, a territory which is claimed by both China as well as India's ally Bhutan. On 18 June 2017, as part of Operation Juniper, about 270 Indian troops armed with weapons and two bulldozers crossed the Sikkim border into Doklam to stop the Chinese troops from constructing the road. On 28 August, both India and China announced that they had withdrawn all their troops from the face-off site in Doklam.

Present :

Galwan valley clash : 2020

Here larger Geo- political game is involve. First we should know why this stand off is going on ?

Answer is THE DARBUK -SHYOK-DAULAT-BEG-OLDIE (DBO) Road.

It is an all-weather road in eastern Ladakh in India, close to the Line of Actual Control with China. It connects Ladakh's capital city Leh, via the villages of Darbuk and Shyok at southern Shyok Valley, with the Daulat Beg Oldi (DBO) post near the China border. An 255 KM long road at an altitude of 14,000 feet. If you see in above map than this road connects Shyok with DAULAT BEG OLDIE(DBO) ,were an very important airbase of India is located which is also used by Indian army . This is only 9 km away from Akshai chin Actual Line Of Control . Being at the base of Karakoram pass this place has immense strategic implication , which is why Indian army is at DBO since late 1950.  As there was no proper use of air force during 1962 war an airbase was created but unfortunately from 1962 to 2000 military didn't gave much importance to this airbase . But anyhow India maintain the airstrip at DBO which is one of the highest airstrip at an altitude of 5065 meters (16,614 feet ). Work was undertaken to make airfield oprational again and was marked on 31st may when an Indian Air Force AN-32 landed.

2008 was an start for china to become one of the superpower and was incising army strength and strategy so in order to defend this India created an Airbase at DBO.

Why china is opposing construction this road at regular basis ?

Because this road gives proper access to Siachin Glacier which was reacquired by India through operation Magedhoot from Pakistan in 1984. Since this road is near Actual Line Of Control we have started to create extension connecting various  vallies . One of the extension created by India currently is to GALWAN VALLEY. China opposed this construction because they said India will get access to galwan valley and India doesn't reacted to this and continued to constructing road .  After construction of this road in future it will get difficult for china to bully India from  Actual Line Of Control. This is the main reason of India China stand off at Galwan vally.

Currently there was physical clash between India and 20 Indian soldier were martyred and 43 Chinese soldier were also killed.

What will be the future impact?

China said , "India should strictly control the front line troops and immediately cease all proactive actions to ensure that such incident do not recur." In short they said India soldiers has initiated the attack .

 India said that Indian soldier had come their for talk but they were attack by Chinese soldier and this was pre-meditated and planned action , this was said by Foreign minister of India S Jaishankar and he also said , "This will have serious impact on the bilateral  relationship". This is big statement made by India.

As a result from all part of India there is strong opposition against China .

-Indian intelligence agencies have asked the government to block or advise people to stop use of 52 mobile applications linked to China.

-The Telecom Ministry has ordered BSNL, MTNL and other private companies to ban all Chinese deals and equipment.

My Opinion

As we have seen that in past also there were wars and stand off between India an China and people of India have opposed china many time but it impact was temporary but currently this is first time when government has involve on boycotting China . China's most of the revenue comes from India and China can't afford to make war against India and currently situation of Corona pandemic many developed country is against China. So China has to take step in favor of India.

But main question arise will Indian public will boycott Chinese product or this is just an temporary wave ?   

Guys what are your opinion on this ? do comment