India Captures Chinese Camp in Border Clash

Chris / CU team, what do you think about Li Hongzhi, the leader of Falun Gong ? that he wants to build a 100,000 gallon per day wastewater plant which neighbors fear will ruin surrounding waterways ? and that he also has very strong feelings concerning homosexuality and said the offspring of mixed races are 'intellectually incomplete' ?

Question: How do you answer those questions so quickly, including the ones you might have to do research for?

The Chinese are fairly humourless about any sort of anti-China activities undertaken by Tibetan exiles in India. I can't find the original source now, but a few years ago, a Chinese diplomat had advised India that the presence of any ethnic Tibetan forces at the Indo-Tibet border would be considered a grave provocation by China. The fact that this largely secretive Tibetan special forces unit (even the size of the unit is kept secret, but is estimated to be between 10 - 20k soldiers) was used in this operation, and that their presence was widely advertised indicates a deliberate move on the part of the Indian government. Hats off to them for manifesting such a magnificent sense of nuance in their border negotiations with the Chinese. It's such a delight to witness how they've been raising the bar in dealing with the Chinese, given the historical reticence of prior Indian governments.

China invaded: Tibet (1950), Korea (1953), Burma (1960), India (1962 and 1967), the USSR (1969), Vietnam (1974 and 1979-1991), and, of course, the South China Sea

This is a win for America too, in a rather unexpected way. The SFF was India's first special operations group setup in '62, after the Indo-China war with the help of the Kennedy Administration and the CIA. It was modeled on the U.S. Army’s Green Berets, and were trained to operate deep behind Chinese lines in Tibet. 150 Tibetan special forces were also trained by the CIA in Colorado. Unfortunately, many who infiltrated the red wall did not make it back. Also, while not widely reported, the force was created during a period of close intelligence and military cooperation between the US and India. American spy planes operated out of the Charbatia airbase in Odisha, India with the intent of keeping an eye on Chinese activities in Tibet. Later, the same base was used by American U2's to spy on China's nuclear progress. Bruce Riedel, a former CIA operative said "It is, of course, deeply ironic that the Chinese invasion of India prompted close American-Indian intelligence cooperation, because in part Mao's paranoia about American-Indian collusion in Tibet prompted the invasion. By making China a threat to India in 1962, Mao created the partnership he had feared, bringing India closer to the United States than anyone would have thought possible before October 1962." Funny how history repeats itself. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7pzHxVINC28

With your looks Chris, you would do quite well in Bollywood!

What has America, and other nations done to show support for India in these boarder conflicts? 🇮🇳🤝🇺🇸