First reply
1. IA is superior to china ( in experience of mountain terrain and personal training but suffer a limited setback due to old machinery)
2. IN is lagging in no of warship, aircraft carrier, and submarines
3. IA is at equal level (the depleted squadron number is a problem but our pilots are better and planes are war proven)
4. Economy says we are not at the position to go at war
RESULT :- Give reply if required, but don't escalate it at all (But I think Chinese is going to escalate this in coming days)
Second reply
defence forum are not for sharing feelings, they are for discussing strategies (but I think this forum is different so nevermind, I won"t waste my time here)
What made you think I don't know these points?
My point is simple: if we don't take hard military options, Chinese will eke out a threshold. They'll continue needling us right under that threshold. For Pakistan, it is 40 men killed. For China? They're trying to figure that out, if GoI doesn't do anything, they'll keep escalating or Toto see small batches of our men being attacked like 15th.
Economy is in gutter due to Covid. But some metrics like oil is high due to low consumption. If we're waiting for a booming economy to hit Chinese, it isn't happening anytime soon. But if we keep waiting, they'll know we'll stomach attempted land grabs, deaths of our men by treachery as long as we can convince ourselves our situations aren't 100% to favour war.
Nobody is talking about a full scale war either. Not gonna happen. But limited skirmish is needed. Sometimes, pride is more important. This is one such pivotal moment.
And you might think it's proper to treat public as mushroom and kept in dark and fed feces, but it is this public that gives soldiers, those to serve in every capacity, run businesses etc etc. What exactly are you going to do with a population that will get demoralised due to non-action? Forget war, a public distraught that Chinese are so powerfuru(if GoI sits pretty) isn't going to lead to a booming economy either.
A public who lost and is humiliated is driven, like Germany
A public who has won is driven.
A public who thinks no matter what they do, their govt won't save their lands and property from invaders will do jack.