China forecast and response
(WorldNews China)

A specialist document drafted in 2012 had presaged Chinese attempts to militarily alter the borders and prescribed that India respond with “similar action across the LAC; a policy of quid pro quo”. In the event of a “major” military offensive by China, the document recognised India`s inability to marshal a “proportionate response” but advised leveraging “our asymmetric capabilities to convince the Chinese to back down”. Part of leveraging “our asymmetric capabilities” would be such radical resorts as triggering an “effective insurgency in areas occupied by the Chinese forces (read Tibet)”. Titled “NonAlignment 2.0: A Foreign and Strategic Policy for India in the Twenty First Century”, the...