China clearly dominates over India in every rung of escalation ladder in any LAC scenario. Her recent LAC infrastructure buildup is mostly reactive, late coming to the game China has set up years and years ago. Logistics and troops buildup for scenario planning on the Indian side seems incoherent, especially while they are planning to overhaul the command structure to manage future war campaign, whatever that may be, recognizing current structure's shortcomings. Trying to out-compete China in organization and modern logistics is quite fool hardly for India's military thinkers. Most likely, India would end up in a position where she would see herself financially bleeding horribly and logistically strained terribly if they keep up with this LAC non-sense. They have a smallish domestic carrier only because they don't have money to begin with. The longer they stay up there in the high altitude desert with a neighbor 5 times the size of her economy with much larger defense budget, less and less goodies for their military overall in coming years and years. And for what? They should have keep the powder dry and pursue for peace and stand down while building up real power, not an empty showdown along LAC with no end in sight and nothing to show for the lives lost. China is like a cat playing with a tired mouse, or a pro keeping the weaker opponent spent his energy punching air in the ring long enough to let him air out before finishing up. It's a game China can play years and years well into decades matching every rung they could ever come up with. For China, India is just a pesky zit that need be popped til right moment.
Sure China will play along with Indian delusions and feelings, but China owns the facts on the ground that she can overwhelm India in every rung of the ladder. It will always be under the threshold of military conflict and full resolution. It's a slow boil and under low heat, that's about it. China killed 20 of them, if they are what they said who they are, there must have been some kind of proof to confirm it already. But, no. It is Taiwan that's the ultimate next ladder China needs to climb to reach a satisfactory resolution for China. That's the main card, a title bout. Once China regains Taiwan, that'll be the new world order, good bye hub and spokes, good bye dollar hegemony.
