India's Fight Against China is a Nightmare

India and China have clashed in deadly brawls on their disputed border multiple times recently. An estimated 60,000 Chinese soldiers are positioned on India’s border, with main battle tanks, fighter jets and artillery facing off against 200,000 Indian forces on the other side. This is the border between the world’s two most populous nations both armed with plenty of nuclear weapons, so the consequences of this conflict extend far beyond Southeast Asia. It might as well be happening on the border with my neighbor Carl. editor note show population numbers over map animation. But what exactly are these two giants fighting over in this inhospitable 4,000 meter high altitude freezing region that is so strategically important?

Written by: Chris Cappy & Brian Sproule
Edited by: Michael Michaelides

Why are they fighting with sticks and stones when they have perfectly good rifles right next to them? and how can we hope to avoid all-out conflict between India and China? Hit the like button and let's get started. (Jayadeva Ranade) A former Indian National Security Advisory, believes he knows the truth about why China has recently become more aggressive in the region. It’s because Xi Jingping needs to protect his new China Pakistan economic corridor. This is Xi Jinping's most expensive belt and road project over the past decade at $65 billion dollars. When you hear about “belt and road” all the other projects are a total sideshow compared to this. Because the China–Pakistan Economic Corridor. CPEC will add a new 10,000 km shorter route for oil transport from the middle east to enter western China.

This will eliminate China’s single greatest strategic vulnerability to the US navy blockading and cutting off their energy supply. There’s only one problem: it's located just a few kilometers from India’s disputed border with Pakistan. And to make matters worse, it’s located inside Pakistan Occupied Kashmir so the roads and railways pass directly through territory that has been claimed by India as their own. It would be like if my neighbor Carl started expanding his driveway into the weird place between our yards where we’re not sure who owns it but we agreed neither of us would start construction there. Cut that out Carl. According to India this project is being built in illegally occupied territory. So India has tens of thousands of soldiers located a few kilometers away from this strategically important trade route for China.

In September 2020, India’s Chief of Defence Staff (General Bipin Rawat) acknowledged this very problem stating “Chinese economic cooperation with Pakistan, in Pakistan-occupied Jammu and Kashmir, along with continued military, economic and diplomatic support mandate high levels of preparation by us.” One of my favorite proverbs from India is “where the needle goes the thread follows” I think CPEC has accelerated tensions on the border. Because in response to Chinese build up in 2021 India shifted 50,000 additional troops to their border with China to reinforce the region. They did this by taking 20,000 troops and 6 army divisions off their western border with rival Pakistan to prioritize defense against China instead. This represents a 40% increase in force strength from 2020.

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[maxabhi]

The strange thing is that when the indian empire and the Chinese empire came into contact for the first time via the silk route they decided to maintain the neutrality of Tibet because it was holy to both Indian and Chinese Hindus and Buddhists. And so there was peace between them for 1500 years.

[jdoe]

Seriously, China is that neighbor that moves their fence a little to your side every time you are away on vacation.

[JeighNeither]

I got caught in the middle of the Indian/Pakistan conflict in Kashmir back in 99 as a photojournalist covering the war in Kargil. You just can't imagine how insane the territory is; cliff-face warfare, Billy goats w/guns I kid you not. This was when they were pointing nukes at each other, although they still are, but this was bad. I've covered a few conflicts & none of them were as implausible as that war. They'd be firing at each other from mountaintop to mountaintop & entire mountainsides would be blown out from beneath them. It was horrific as all war is, but fighting in territory like that is unlike anything I've ever witnessed or even seen portrayed on film tbh.

[Çóლ]

War with Indian mean war with Russia
Мы будем братьями навсегда
Love from Ruska 🇷🇺❤️🇮🇳🫂

[bengiadoggum]

I'm from Aunachal Pradesh, Indian state that shares the Line of Actual Control with China. I don't know what are your sources but China never disclosed the actual number of casualties in galwan clash of 2020 june most probably because of higher number of casualties, though our Indian troops claims it to be high as 40 and China timely keeps poking in Arunachal's border too, intentionally.

[DerangedResponse]

Back in the 90's I read an excerpt of a CIA assessment about a possible war breaking out between China and India in the year 2025. The theory was that this war would be based on the water table. Whoever made this assessment wasn't too far off the mark.

[INDIAN_HISTORY]

After reading some comments, I can clearly say that pakistani people are more patriotic towards China than the Chinese 😂😂😂

[XinaCCPFreeTibet]

Wow !!! Well researched and presented facts. Nice work.

[HeisenbergFam]

I wouldnt be surprised if WW3 breaks out in Asia seeing the tension between India vs China, India vs Pakistan, China vs Philippines, Japan etc.

[graham]

As an Indian i can say that we dont have water shortage as its portrayed nor does china. We've been managing stuff for future.

[Seve]

I think this "neighbor Carl" situation needs its own whole episode.

[Shaleqa_Adenan]

Peace for both Countries! I love both India 🇮🇳 and China 🇨🇳 from Ethiopia 🇪🇹! The world is better off these two countries in peace than in war! These two countries have huge impact to the whole world 🌎! No one wins in this war!

[abhigyanghosh]

Correction in 10:35 : China claims Doklam to be it's own territory but Bhutan claims the same. The problem is not Bhutan choosing sides but the fact that China undermining Bhutanese soverignity

[BooOoOoOoOooOoOoyah]

Correction : The actual number of casualities on the Chinese side during the skirmish betwwen India and China are more than 40, China never disclosed the actual numbers, they only raised the number to 4 after a lot of intenational backlash, there are severla reports and sources ypu can easily find on this.

[cheems]

China borders 10 countries but they have border dispute with 30 countries. I wouldn't be surprised if china has a border dispute with USA and canada too 😅

[johnl]

Awesome content bro, love the presentation style and some humor here n there. Most importantly, you have made this issue easy to understand.

[graham]

One important consideration is that Pakistan is sliding ever closer to becoming a failed state, or at least a failed economy. Not sure if this will hurt China's B&R projects or give them additional leverage to take territory, place troops, etc. Probably a bit of both I guess.

[eksbocks]

India: Minds his own business
China: "And I took that personally."

[alexk]

When discussing casualties at the border, it is crucial to recognize a significant distinction. India consistently upholds a commendable level of transparency and honesty in providing information to its people. Conversely, the PLA does not share the same obligation and often manipulates casualty figures. Another notable aspect to emphasize is the disparity in preparedness between the two nations. India's long-standing engagement in low-intensity counter-insurgency and counter-terrorism operations along its borders has resulted in a highly trained and battle-hardened military. In contrast, the PLA relies primarily on numerical superiority and has demonstrated weaknesses in mountainous terrains.

[snowman]

I think India is the major reason why things haven’t cooked off between China and Taiwan