“To understand the tension between India and China, it is important to understand China’s mentality. China has a pattern of highlighting the weaknesses of others and use it to weaken their morale. China is in dispute with almost all of its neighboring countries including India. China aims to be a superpower by 2049 and sees India as her biggest competitor. To eliminate competition, she is using land disputes as a cover-up to control India and refrain us from progressing forward,” observed Lt Gen (retd) Ravindra Thodge, while speaking during a social media live event organised by Prahar Samaj Jagruti Sanstha.

 

Lt Gen Thodge, an officer decorated with PVSM, AVSM, SM, and VSM, and former Master General Ordnance, and Consultant to Ministry of Defence, provided an insight on India-China relations, border issues, and India’s preparedness to fight back China. At the outset, he paid tributes to the Indian soldiers martyred recently at Galwan Valley. He praised the Indian armed forces saying, “Anybody who tries to mess with us must be prepared to face the wrath of the forces.”

 

Lt Gen Thodge highlighted that Chinese followed a policy to ‘encircle, entangle and envelope’. Indian Government is leaving no stone unturned to find a way out of the issues, he added. “Our indomitable spirit and enthusiasm for a brighter, better and stronger India stands in the Chinese way of achieving their dreams to rule the world. As we are ready to face China and contain its ill intentions, countries from all over the world like Japan, US, Australia have come to our support.”

 

Mao had once said that ‘the right time to war is the time when there is chaos all around’. As the world is busy fighting the ‘Chinese Virus’ causing COVID-19, China planned to attack all the neighboring countries like Japan in East China Sea; Indonesia, Malaysia and Vietnam in South China Sea, provoked Nepal to start border issue with India, and now land issue with Bhutan, Lt Gen Thodge explained. Chinese have planned and executed this war very diligently to capture all resources and gain supremacy amongst all nations, he said.

 

“Chinese policy and International relations strategy are purely based on betrayal, shifting alliances, conflicts, rivalry, deceit irrespective of how good and cordial relations one country maintains with them,” Lt Gen Thodge observed. According to him, the world was facing a situation that was a product of China’s attack, planned well for years. Chinese captured all the important technical institutes, invested huge money in research at Harvard University

and the likes, planned industrial

 

espionage, stole scientific research and data, and exploited the same for the personal gains, he alleged.

He cited the example of Chinese take-over of Motorola brand and its merger with Chinese brand Lenovo.

During such tough testing times, Lt Gen Thodge appealed to the Indians to stand as one nation and speak one language. “We should remain united and have one national narrative for the whole incident. People need to understand that every detail about the next move cannot be publicly revealed. We need to respect and trust our defence forces,” he said. He believed that Indian armed forces would give a befitting reply to everyone who dared to pose a threat to India and people should also believe the same.