Never underestimate incompetence. Either they genuinely did not even bother to think through the next step or Chinese counter move, or they underestimated or dismissed the possibility, thinking that China would not do anything beyond ineffectual wringing of hands and empty statements of protest. Don't be too surprised. Trump and his administration did the same thing with the start of his 2nd trade war against China, despite having the results of the 1st one to examine.
Miscellaneous News
- Thread starter bd popeye
- Start date
Never underestimate incompetence. Either they genuinely did not even bother to think through the next step or Chinese counter move, or they underestimated or dismissed the possibility, thinking that China would not do anything beyond ineffectual wringing of hands and empty statements of protest. Don't be too surprised. Trump and his administration did the same thing with the start of his 2nd trade war against China, despite having the results of the 1st one to examine.
most likely they undersestimated China's resolve, thought China would sit back and simply do nothing.... didnt think China would ever go on offensive
It's ok, I'm sure they can cope their way through this
LoL! Indian media. Just because Modi recently went to Tianjin to beg Xi Jinping for help doesn't mean China is gonna let India off at the border. You guys can never be trusted.
So India builds airbases near the Chinese border, claims of all kinds of advantages, and says they can do XYZ to the PLA. But no, that's not a threat to China. China upgrades it's airbases near the border in response, but that threatens India. So Indian cannot trust China again.
Oh. Don't worry guys. This is just going back to business as usual. Keep this up, the Victor Gao Line is coming too.
So India builds airbases near the Chinese border, claims of all kinds of advantages, and says they can do XYZ to the PLA. But no, that's not a threat to China. China upgrades it's airbases near the border in response, but that threatens India. So Indian cannot trust China again.
Oh. Don't worry guys. This is just going back to business as usual. Keep this up, the Victor Gao Line is coming too.
Recent Sentinel imagery shows 18 HAS under construction at Tingri and at Burang. Links on the PLAAF News thread.
Nice to see one of the former AVMs debunk the long-held Indian cope about high runways = lower loads.
A lot of people are wondering how western politicians are so unaware that China could punch back. It could be that they are really that ignorant.
A lot of info we know on this forum we take for granted. We have subject matter experts who keep us updated on the latest trends of China in semiconductors, ai, finance etc etc thanks to the specific threads.
Western politicians main focus area of knowledge is about themselves not China. So unless they were a China knowledge expert before, you can't expect them to know much.
Think tanks are supposed to give the info to them. But the problem is many think tanks don't even have Chinese people who can read Chinese. I've tried searching about many subjects related to China in English, it just does not work. All the info is in Chinese and even then a lot of time the info isn't there openly and you need to spend a lot of time digging for it.
A lot of info we know on this forum we take for granted. We have subject matter experts who keep us updated on the latest trends of China in semiconductors, ai, finance etc etc thanks to the specific threads.
Western politicians main focus area of knowledge is about themselves not China. So unless they were a China knowledge expert before, you can't expect them to know much.
Think tanks are supposed to give the info to them. But the problem is many think tanks don't even have Chinese people who can read Chinese. I've tried searching about many subjects related to China in English, it just does not work. All the info is in Chinese and even then a lot of time the info isn't there openly and you need to spend a lot of time digging for it.