The LAC is not fenced so both sides cross over. And then the other side simply goes through the various established mechanisms to send the other side back.
Actually India holds most of the strategic heights along the LAC.
So India lost the war but strategically won, kudos.
Yes its a trade where India exports close to 20bn and imports close 55bn so this trade deficit of $50bn is a net inflow of $50bn into china annually. It will jeopardise a $50bn annual inflow for a $60bn investment in Pakistan over years?That too at a time when its facing a trade war. Cpec may well be beneficial to Pakistan but that doesnot mean China will pressurise India over it.
China will maintain the status quo with India, if you look at the news China always call for Pakistan/India easing tensions, but if they feel India is threatening the CPEC, the "crown jewel" of the ambitious "One Belt, One Road", they'll ask Indians about it. Pakistan has become a strategic partner of the Chinese due to the OBOR and that's the reason its political class followed the Pak general elections so closely (there were ill founded perception of Imran Khan being a critic of the CPEC, while he was only criticizing Punjab govt. handling of the projects). They'll balance both diligently, because that's the "mandarin" spirit.
China is the oldest continuing civilization in the world, and as Enlightenment thinkers like Voltaire saw centuries ago, this civilization is based on trade and diplomacy : they'll try to accommodate all geopolitical actors while building the OBOR/String of Pearls strategy slowly. No one said that they'll launch wars for anyone's sake, no one does nowadays, minus the US for AIPAC lobby/Israel. It's the 21th century and globalization through trade.
And about the trade deficit :
“Chinese imports have thrown a spanner in the wheel of India’s economic progress per se, and the industrial sector in particular,” the parliamentary standing committee on commerce voiced in its report tabled last week.
Beginning with hard numbers that establishes its basic premise of huge and constantly growing Sino-Indian trade imbalance, the report dwells on the boiling debate on the market economy status to China, echoing a similar line of thought implicit in the US-initiated trade war.
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$50 bn: In a decade to 2017-18, India’s exports to China rose by $2.5 billion. In the same period, China’s imports in India rose by $50 billion. India registered a trade deficit of $157 billion in 2017-18.
https://www.business-standard.com/a...-economy-the-hard-numbers-118072800622_1.html
Brahmaputra flows through China into north east India then into BD. So any restriction on water in china will affect BD as well.
So there's no issue.
Saudi's allow immigration from India as well. The remittance amount may be similar or more. So Saudis are helping India as well.
So you don't have a problem with the peoples of Bin Qasim, like Kashmiris are the peoples of Sikandar Butshikan ?
And remittances is the icing on the cake, I was referring to stuff like giving 10 000s barrels of free oil per day when in the late 90s Pak was hit by US/EU sanctions, due to the nuclear tests. The late King Faysal was also a dear friend of Pak.
Population difference is of no significance if you have technological edge or economic strength. Look at USA, 300mn people waging war through out the globe. Look at Russia 150mn people but keep doing whatever they want thumbing the noses of the NATO. Pakistan has neither and seemingly its not even bothered. Its more bothered about waging a war with borrowed resources.
Political history of these nations have nothing to do with Pak's own historical experience : the north during the US civil war was industrialized (producing +90% of the US firearms), thus it won against the agrarian south ; while Russia was being modernized since Peter the Great in the 18th century, and it accelerated drastically with Stalin's mass industrialization/five-year plans at the beginning of the Soviet rule. German philosopher Hegel was saying in the mid 19th century already that the next superpowers would be the US and Russia, which tells you a lot considering Prussia's own advances.
These situations are drastically different from a State which was colonized less than a century ago, with all the particular trends of British colonialism we can witness everywhere.
And the pop difference between Pak and India is bigger, 1.1 billion, while you could also argue that the British, even if the overall rule was toxic (deindustrialization), did at least some few things in few states which would go to India, so if India had a negative in its pop as compared to Pak initially (but then Pak had to accommodate 6-7 millions refugees in a pop which at time wasn't over 60 millions), it had industrial class in Bombay, etc
). If we fire at the border you can retaliate. But the problem is it happens the other way around. Your army creates problems at the border whenever there is an India - Pak peace talk. Nawaz Sharif was very upset with this. I didn’t claim Indians are ‘good guys’. You can’t generalise like that. But we’re not blinded by religion and don’t believe in proxy war. India respects the choice of the people of Pakistan and expects the same respect from your side as well. Poking your finger in our internal matters is a dangerous exercise.
