Indian reinforcements approach Leh, on a highway bordering China. Picture: Getty Images AMANDA HODGE SOUTHEAST ASIA CORRESPONDENT 6:37PM SEPTEMBER 9, 2020 https://www.theaustralian.com.au/wo...s/news-story/3d5f1bd89dc944413cfb8af82ccaa5a8 China has warned Indian troops face “annihilation” if they continue their provocations along the tense Himalayan border, and that the two countries are now closer to all-out conflict than at any time since they last fought a war in 1962. The threats, made by Chinese Communist Party mouthpiece the Global Times, come as both militaries accused the other of breaking a 45-year “no fire” agreement during a confrontation on the 3488km Line of Actual Control this week. China has accused India of firing warning shots on Monday night over the border on the southern bank of Ladakh’s Pangong Lake amid rising tensions over Indian troops’ recent occupation of two strategic heights, which it says are on its side of the unmarked border, but which overlook key Chinese formations. “This was the first time since 1975 that the peace on the border between the two countries was interrupted by gunfire,” China foreign ministry spokesman Zhao Lijian said. A spokesman for the People’s Liberation Army’s Western Theatre Command called the actions “serious military provocations of a terrible nature” and said PLA troops took “counter-measures”. But New Delhi says it was PLA troops who “fired a few rounds in the air to intimidate Indian soldiers” after the group approached one of the strategic heights armed with crude weapons similar to those used in a deadly clash in June in the nearby Galwan Valley. Pictures published by Indian media on Wednesday appeared to show several dozen PLA troops armed with makeshift bayonets comprising machetes attached to spears. A statement later released by India’s External Affairs Ministry said: “China continues to undertake provocative activities to escalate. At no stage has the Indian Army transgressed across the LAC or resorted to use of any aggressive means, including firing.” Until this week Indian and Chinese troops are said to have abided by a series of border protocols forbidding the use of firearms, first agreed upon after four Indian soldiers were killed in the eastern Himalayas in 1975. Monday’s cross-border firing has raised the temperature between two militaries that have repeatedly clashed along the border since May, when New Delhi accused PLA troops of crossing the boundary in at least three places and occupying territory long-claimed by India. India and China’s foreign ministers, S Jaishankar and Wang Yi, are due to meet on the sidelines of a meeting of the eight-nation Shanghai Co-operation Organisation in Moscow this week. But hopes for a breakthrough in the border crisis appear slim after a meeting last Friday between the two countries’ defence ministers failed to make progress in resolving a conflict that seriously escalated when 20 Indian soldiers were killed in hand-to-hand clashes with PLA troops in June. China has not revealed its casualties. Further clashes occurred late last month between PLA troops and an elite Indian special frontier force comprising high-altitude soldiers from India’s exiled Tibetan community. That has since sparked increasingly bellicose statements from the Global Times, whose editor-in-chief, Hu Xijin, wrote on Tuesday that “the situation today is very close to that before the outbreak of the 1962 war”. “If the Indian army fires the first shot at the PLA, the consequence must be the annihilation of the Indian army on the spot. If Indian troops dare to escalate the conflict, more Indian troops will be wiped out,” he said, adding China felt “contempt” for the Indian army’s combat capability.
Pakistan is hardly an innocent bystander in all of this. Pakistan and India have fought and had conflict over the Kashmir region for decades. All of China's allies are snakes and Pakistan is right at the top of the list and considered to be China's closest ally. China and Pakistan are hanky-pankying here to regain lost territories that were negotiated away or lost in previous regional shuffles. Pakistan is a snaky country. They lick China's boots and collude with them while China is simultaneously running concentration camps for muslims. Nasty snakes. They were hiding Osama too all while we were giving them military aid. Snakes. It's another area where they are just running out the clock until Joe is elected- or possibly anyway. Trump isnt going to let China encroach on India too much, beyond that little regional conflict in Kashmir and Ladakh - not when he can extract good trade deals out of India by offering up help. Joe is lost in space. China just makes a list of what it wants and gives it to Hunter......excuse.....I meant Joe.
China-Backed Projects in Pakistan Fuel Its Biggest Steel IPO in 5 Years Faseeh Mangi, Bloomberg News ........Pakistan’s steelmakers are benefiting from the building of dams and power plans financed by China. Prime Minister Imran Khan’s move to allow tax evaders to invest illicit cash into building homes is also driving demand for construction material, helping improve the prospects for an economy that contracted for the first time in seven decades amid the coronavirus pandemic. “For steel, everything is gearing up and there will be solid demand,” Agha said in an interview. Khan’s real estate package “is perhaps one of the biggest game changer for our country.” Tax cheats with illegal wealth, estimated to be as large as 56% of the nation’s $278 billion economy, are responding to Khan’s offer. Cement sales rose to a record in July while steel followed. Sales to builders accounted for 30% of Agha Steel’s revenue in August from 12% in the year ended June....... https://www.bloomberg.com/news/arti...ts-fuel-biggest-pakistan-steel-ipo-in-5-years
Yeh sure. Chinese steel mills in Pakistan. Take a wild and crazy guess where China is getting the iron ore to support those steel mills? There is a reason why China loves ya. Or wants to colonize you anyway. Which is love to them.
It is a known fact that China literally wants to take over the whole world. A vote for Joe Biden helps them achieve just that. Most are too stupid to see it. It's almost like they are blind to such a thing.
Yeah I don’t buy that they want to take over the world. I think they want to have a similar global presence as the US, but with less empire. The Chinese could have already taken over Africa lock stock and barrel. Instead they just move slowly financing infrastructure and taking over mineral rights. Not sure it’s as nefarious as them realizing they need much more agriculture and natural resources than they can sustain.
The Silk Road the Chinese are building is to speed up delivery of products to and from China. Of course, the sad sap poor countries are paying China for the loans to build those nice roads in isolated areas of their countries where there is little to no benefit to the host country. In addition, they employ Chinese workers to construct those roads so, again, it benefits the Chinese while, poor countries get their natural resources exploited and they get to pay for China's Silk Road via those Chinese loans with interest.