Situation is Galwan Valley of Ladakh has turned serious with clashes between two armies resulting in casualties that democratic India has no reason to hide and China has no compulsion to admit. China’s aggressiveness in Ladakh is timed with the rising condemnation of its regime that kept Coronavirus pandemic under wraps and inflicted a catastrophe on the world. In the coming days and months, the world will surely shun China and isolate it and China knows it. It’s trying to flex muscles all around its territory and trying to bully neighbours to get self-confidence.
At this stage, Indians are wondering whether India has been too polite to China for all these years. Beijing must remember the magnanimity of India’s first Prime Minister Jawahar Lal Nehru who played a key role in getting China into the security council of the UN as a permanent member with veto power. Ironically, China used that power to help Pakistani-based terrorists to remain off the hook of international justice for a few years. India has played a gracious host to Dalai Lama and the community of Tibetans who faced exile as Beijing usurped their land and yet not allowed them any political activity. India has played a gentleman’s game with China so far. Is there a time for a change in China policy? Indian people have decided to boycott China and after today’s clash in which three Indian army personnel died in action, this decision has become a resolve. Now it’s the turn of the Indian government to stop mollycoddling China’s wicked regime and work actively in exposing its totalitarian regime in international fora. India must not shy of forging alliances with like-minded countries to show China its place. India must explore the possibility, even theoretically, of divesting China of its veto power. A power that suppresses its people, bullies neighbours and tricks smaller nations into giving up control in lieu of unpaid loans for projects is a rogue power; it can’t be trusted with arbitrating serious issues in the Security Council.