Also, please don’t lump us with the Bhakts. To the best of my knowledge no one here has called for extermination of Indian race or have called them the Indian equivalent of “cockroach eaters” or “bat soup drinkers”, not have we expressed bleed when major natural disasters or COVID second wave hit their country. In fact, we even briefly had a donation thread and got called femboys for our trouble.
The donation thread was mine and your colleague shut it down.
And to the best of my knowledge the oxygen concentrators weren't routed to InA assets. If the InA got oxygen concentrators from China, they most likely paid for it, since China controls a vast sum of the oxygen concentrator market. I suppose your point (in that thread) was to show that the Chinese weren't as bad as the "Indians", and the Chinese aren't as bad as the Indians. That's absolutely true if we're not talking about ultranationalists and hawks.
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My line is, if we have to have border skirmishes with soldiers on one side, or soldiers on both sides, dying, that's fine. It's also fine if the CMC brass decides a preemptive strike on India is appropriate to deal with Quad encirclement. Even a nuclear exchange with tens of millions of Chinese and Indians dying is fine. That's duty, that's what the Indians would call Dharma.
However, killing or causing the death of people beyond duty is not fine. Needless and avoidable deaths are not fine. And a general lack of civility, even when the other side (Indian nationalists) are being obnoxious is not fine either.
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Even if we think about it in terms of duty, India is more useful to China as an ally or at least neutral than as a part of the Quad chain. As others have commented, a solid Sino-Indian alliance is basically game-over for the West and other imperialist powers, because China and India together control around 33% of the world population and are potentially the dominant economic bloc in the world.
The only problem is, the Indian political class seems to have its head screwed on backwards and somehow thinks their traditionally horrid governance (Bhakts: see COVID) can allow them to successfully contest China, when the advent of H-20s will mean that India cannot even form a cost-effective speed-bump vs China.
One has to think about Churchill's line about the Americans doing the right thing after they've exhausted all other alternatives. The Indians, we are sure, will eventually do the right thing, but not before blundering around aimlessly for at least a couple of years, perhaps a couple of decades.