China%u2019s relationship with India is not going to change much in near future and China would maintain an aggressive posture by claiming Arunachal, and military thrusts and jabs along the border. But India need not be unnecessarily perturbed since we have adequate strength and China would never engage on this side of the Himalayan ridgeline. China may have superior strength in ICBMs and nuclear arms, but infantry engagement across a mountain is another matter. She remembers what happened when she sent her army into Vietnam during late 1970s. Skirmishes along the north-eastern border would continue and India must keep a vigil, take local action, lodge a protest when appropriate but not get perturbed. India must maintain adequate military strength along her border with China because a 1962-like limited action may well be embarked upon by China. She (China) would continue to arm Pakistan and give it nuclear and missile technology to keep India tied down on her western borders. China would team up with Malaysia to keep India out of AEAN economic alliance. All this is because of Dalai Lama and Buddhism, both having an Indian connection. To Chinese Communists, Communism is like a religion and they consider Buddhism a competing religion and a threat, and persecute any organised Buddhist activity in mainland China, such as Falun Gong. They just about tolerate organised Lama Buddhism in Tibet but have circumscribed it to a great extent. India must make a realistic assessment of any
