Passage Based Questions: Logical Reasoning - 11 | Passage Based Questions for CLAT Preparation PDF Download

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Let’s see what its not - its not a response to India’s Article 370 decision of August 2019.China would have taken “steps” in 2019 itself, so that’s not it. Yes, the Indian Darbuk-Shyok-DBO all-weather road is a problem, but that road has been under construction for years, including a changed alignment. China is also unlikely to be using a border stand-off where it may not achieve victory to retaliate against India’s new FDI restrictions. For those who didn’t notice, China has retaliated by banning pork imports from India.
Berti Linter wrote in his book, China’s India War, that the 1962 war was China’s way of diverting attention from the failure of its Great Leap Forward programme. In 2020,the ducks are not lined up for President Xi Jinping .China has a credibility problem regarding Covid-19,which has a knock on effect in global bodies key to China’s place as the presumptive superpower.
“De-coupling “will be terrible, even if imperfect, China’s growth model will be hit, particularly if global supply chains have to be diversified away from the China. This might seem like a good time to demonstrate dominance on the only un-demarcated boundry, teach the Indians a lesson, give India’s vaulting ambitions a reality check by showing up its inadequacies; struggling with a pandemic ,crashing economy and floundering on national security. India shouldn’t get away with “uninstall Chinese apps”.
As for China, India should be prepared for more trouble on the boundary as it continues its infrastructure building activity and improves defence deployments. Indians should step away from talking of “different perceptions” of the LAC. They are not “perceptions”. They are two claim lines that overlap in certain areas. When we say, “perceptions”, we are essentially giving the Chinese a free pass to change the position on the ground and claim that to be the LAC. India made its boundary alignment clear to the Chinese in 1960,through six exhaustive meetings in Delhi, Beijing and Rangoon (Yangoon).