If it comes to war, we can take the eg of the recent Nagorno-Karabakh conflict; the outnumbered PLA could use suicide drones as well as cluster mines to defend themselves.
Behind Bhutan is Britain, and China does not need to act.Yes. I too feel that if India were to intervene into Bhutan, there is actually very little that China can do other than diplomatically protest. China's own pledge to not intervene into the internal matters of other countries truly limits its options. So there are 2 scenarios that I speculate could happen:
1) India overthrows the Bhutanese government. If India does this, China can't do much really, and the West would tacitly support India. Bhutan shall return to being an appendage of India. But this will spook India's South Asian neighbours. They are gonna align even more with China in hopes to better protect themselves against Indian imperialism. So this further isolates India even more in South Asia in the longer term.
2) India annexes Bhutan. By annexing Bhutan, Bhutan's territorial disputes with China will now becomes India's problem. This will open a new front with China. China will have to militarily respond to prevent India from occupying what was once Chinese territory that was being disputed with Bhutan. If India decides to be aggressive, then India could expect another skirmish or even a war. Not to mention this will also scare and disgust India's neighbours to further align with China.
In the bigger picture. China losing Bhutan to India wouldn't really change its own strategic calculations by much. It'll just be a return to the old days of disputing the borders with both India and Bhutan. But India's strategic calculations will change drastically. India will scare and disgust its neighbours, thus pushing them further into China's orbit. India will only accelerate its isolation in Asia by regime changing or annexing Bhutan.
Which the said "Indian intervention" will certainly have London's blessing, lest you forget who's the incumbent foreign minister, as well as BoJo's take of foreign policy.Behind Bhutan is Britain, and China does not need to act.
You can search him "By Member", and click on one of his posts, then click on his profile and click again on "Start conversation" to send a private message to him.@Deino , Howdy, how do i contact a moderator here?