Delhi won't escalate with China that affects its economy
Pushing each other around in LAC.
Narendra Modi conducts highly publicised meeting with Xi Jinping.
Indo-China Trading & its economy.
Chabahar Port Trading.
India’s position in South Asia and the Gulf has gained acknowledgment because of its economy — note the Arab investment which has gone to India instead of Pakistan — and China is a peripheral challenger in the region, in addition to being one of its biggest trading partners. Indian and Chinese troops have “pushed each other around” on the Line of Actual Control (LAC) in Ladakh, raising an international alarm. Under pressure from missile fire on its own LAC with India , Pakistan made public its hostility by getting its military experts to predict India’s humiliation at the hands of a “superior power”. But judging from its past modus operandi, war is not going to be India’s option — nor any form of escalation that will affect its economy. This is where India acts differently: No knee-jerk reaction that will lead to the kind of war that broke out in 1962 and damage its economy. Unlike Pakistan’s predictable reaction of breaking off cross-border trade — as it did in 2019 after the Pulwama in…