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Till two years ago, China loved to state that if India did not behave as expected (by Beijing), the People’s Liberation Army (PLA) could repeat the 1962 border war. At the end of October 2017, as an offshoot of the Doklam episode, Sina.com published an album of photos showing ill-equipped and unprepared Indian troops who ‘dared to attack the superiorly-trained Chinese troops of Gen Zhang Guohua. According to Beijing, this gave Chairman Mao no option but to ‘counterattack’ and kill thousands of Indian jawans and officers. Already in 2017, the PLA had the first hint that the present Indian Army...
