I posted a completely different article than the one you quoted. One that's better than the trolling that has dominated this thread.
When there are statements like these:
Much of the above is repetition from last year’s analyses when the question of the Wuhan virus was yet not making news serious enough to be given strategic focus. Europe in particular was singing paeans to China for the relief efforts at the height of the first wave of the pandemic. India too was suffering the first wave just when the PLA decided to detach a large segment of troops under training, to the Line of Actual Control (LAC) in Ladakh. The timing does not appear to have been any coincidence and gave sufficient credence to the actions which happened in sync; awaiting sufficient effect of the spread of the virus before executing coercion by walking across the LAC and engaging in fracas with weapons it had prepared to project as never having come prepared for war.
If we presume that China was also convinced about using biological warfare against India and its high density population and had taken a high level decision on the same, it would then have only been a question of the degree of coercion that the PLA would have to impose to achieve the overall aim. That it would lose the benefit of goodwill with India was a given but it was probably confident that India would continue trade ties whatever be the coercion below threshold of war.
Why should we take this article and
you seriously?
Here are these well established facts:
1) India took the opportunity of the Covid-19 outbreak in Wuhan to capture territory from China's Aksai Chin. India was the one that believed that China was collapsing from its Covid-19 outbreak. This is fact, because unlike you and your fellow Jai Hinds, we and the Chinese have proper long term memories. The India-China border conflict didn't start when the PLA went into Aksai Chin and reassert China's sovereignty. It started in the news headlines in India as early as Jan-Feb, proclaiming at that time that: "this time is China's end and India's time rise".
2) Indian troops before Galwan were extremely bullish about confronting China. Drunk by the Jai Hind delusions of India Superpower, they first assaulted a PLA patrol at Pangong lake, severely injuring a PLA officer. Still not sober, they ambushed a PLA negotiating party and viciously killed 4 PLA soldiers. They finally got slapped into reality after getting their asses handed to them when the PLA finally brought in their brawlers. Many of the Jawans who died, did so while fleeing. There are few humiliations in warfare that can match that.
Look at this crap, again the Indians want to talk about this so called 'success':
By mid-Aug 2020 the Indian Army had rapidly built up additional formations supported by armour and Infantry Combat Vehicles (ICVs). With that confidence brought on by additional troops the occupation of the heights which were essentially in our own side of the LAC, took place on 29-30 Aug 2020. The fact that the PLA responded almost desperately and out of frustration to the setback but did not press home hostilities, revealed the nature of operations the PLA was undertaking. There was enough provocation by the Indian occupation of the heights. The Chinese responded but Indian troops held their ground
The PLA did respond. We all have seen the video and reports of the PLA troops assaulting Indian Jawans on that hilltop with the Jawans routed and fleeing at the end, even when defending from high ground. Whether true or not, some Indians later speculated that 'microwave weapons' were used on the Jawans. At the end of the negotiations at Pangong lake, India ceded that peak to China. Again, this is India trying to conjure 'success' out of a humiliating failure.
The title: Himalayan Blunder 2020 says it all. Only, its actually a case of Indian projection on China. It was the Indian Himalayan Blunder of 2020. India thought it could take advantage of China when Covid-19 was raging in Wuhan. Instead, India got its ass whooped by China. Just like after Operation Swift Retort by Pakistan, India tried to conjure success out of humiliating failure. But only Jai Hinds and fools are buying it. After that, its a series of calamity for India from then on. India's own failure with Covid-19, India's 'superpower economy' tanking, India spending excessively on military imports with too limited returns, and now having China upgrade its PLA forces facing India to a level of formidability that starts to rival its Eastern Theater. Historians will look back at this and label this an Indian Himalayan Blunder of 2020.
@voyager1 was absolutely correct when he put up that photo of a clown.