General Bipin Rawat Cautions China, Pakistan

“Should Pakistan take advantage of India’s face-off with China…” This is how India’s Chief of Defence Staff completed that sentence…

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00:00We have been seeing some aggressive actions by the Chinese, but we are capable of handling

00:06these in the best suitable way.

00:09Pakistan could take advantage of that and create some trouble for us, but in fact, they

00:14may suffer heavy losses should they attempt any misadventure."

00:17China's economic cooperation with Pakistan, in Pakistan-occupied Jammu and Kashmir, along

00:37with continued military, economic and diplomatic support, mandates high levels of preparation

00:44by us.

00:45At the same time, this also poses the threat of coordinated action along the northern and

00:52western fronts, which we have to consider in our defence planning.

00:56Therefore, considering the threat from our northern and our western borders, we have

01:02devised strategies to deal with the primary front, depending on which front we wish to

01:08address as being primary, considering the other front as secondary.

01:14We have earmarked forces for that, and we have conceptualized our strategies to deal

01:20with such threat scenarios emerging on both our borders.

01:24We have our protocols in the way we want to ensure peace and tranquility along the borders.

01:30We have our border management protocols, which have been signed between us and China right

01:36from 1993 onwards, and we have modified these protocols continuously.

01:41Out of late, we have been seeing some aggressive actions by the Chinese, but we are capable

01:48of handling these in the best suitable way.

01:51We have our tri-services, that is the army, navy and air force, capable of dealing with

01:57our threats along our frontiers.

01:58Pakistan has been launching proxy war and sponsoring, training, arming and equipping

02:05terrorists on their soil, which they keep infiltrating into a state of Jammu and Kashmir.

02:12They have also tried to expand the terrorism into other regions of our country.

02:18So, we find the threat from there will mainly be in the form of proxy war, but should any

02:24threat develop along the northern borders, Pakistan could take advantage of that and

02:29create some trouble for us on the northern borders.

02:32And therefore, we have taken adequate precautions to ensure that any such misadventure by Pakistan

02:39is thwarted and they are not able to succeed in their mission.

02:43But in fact, they may suffer heavy losses should they attempt any misadventure.