'China is not Pakistan where you can fly over and bomb a place'. Modi faces fight-or-flight moment in the India-China border crisis
If there’s any time he should be active on Twitter, it is now. After all, 20 Indian soldiers have been killed in skirmishes with Chinese troops. And they weren’t killed in a gunfight but beaten to death with bricks and rods laced with barbed wires. Regional observers say the death toll is set to climb.
“This has been a real setback for not just Mr Modi but his team, which includes Foreign Minister and National Security Advisor ,” said Bibhu Prasad Routray, director of Mantraya, an Indian think tank that focuses on security issues. Modi finally issued a statement on Wednesday evening saying, “India wants peace, but if instigated, India at all costs is capable of giving an appropriate response.”
Tensions have been building up for months in Ladakh, a region in the disputed territory of Kashmir, as both sides accuse each other of transgressing their de-facto border agreements by stepping into each other's territory. Even though foreign ministers of the two countries have spoken and called for cooling the tensions, the damage done to Modi’s image can be irreversible.
Modi, who has been elected to power twice in the last six years, has seen a drop in his popularity amid a host of challenges.
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