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Asia Times/National Interest: What Would a Naval War Between China and India Really Look Like?
A tense Sino-Indian border standoff last year stirred speculation about what might happen if the two nuclear-armed Asian giants went to war.
Beijing and New Delhi have shelved their differences for now, but the potential for a future clash remains. This is nudging military analysts to theorize about the outcome of a possible face-off between Indian and Chinese forces along the Himalayan frontier and on the Indian Ocean. The relevancy of such assessments is heightened by Washington’s pursuit of a new Indo-Pacific strategy that views India as a counter-weight to China’s ambitions in the region.
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WNU Editor: Bottom line .... because of long distances and logistics both navies do not have the capability to inflict great harm on the other. But China is determined to build and deploy a fleet that will have that capability in the future. My guess is that in the next decade or two China will be able to wage war in the Indian Ocean .... and in the event that such a conflict does occur, my money will be on the Chinese.
