China PLA Colonel says India is not threat to its military

“India is unlikely to overtake China in the coming decades due to its weak industrial infrastructure, while China has built a complex and systematic defense industrial platform,” said Zhao Xiaozhuo, senior colonel of the PLA Academy of Military Sciences. When you look at the weapon systems of the Indian Army, what types of tanks, aircraft and warships were built and developed by Indians?’
Are China and India moving towards a big confrontation again in East Ladakh, big disclosure of think tank
the conflict continues
China and India have been at loggerheads since 2020 in eastern Ladakh. Meanwhile, 20 Indian soldiers were martyred in the Galvan conflict. While China also suffered a lot. According to the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute, India was the world’s largest importer of major arms from 2018 to 2022. During this period, India bought 31 percent of the total arms from Russia. Senior Colonel Zhang Chi, associate professor at the PLA National Defense University and a member of the delegation, said, “India has left no stone unturned in military modernization to become an influential superpower like other countries.”

India will not be a loyal partner
Zhao also said that due to the modernization of India’s military and the US-led Quad, there will be no impact between China and India on platforms like BRICS and the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO). China believes that the purpose of the Quad is to stop China. Zhao said that China believes that India will not be able to become a ‘loyal partner’ of the US-dominated Indo-Pacific strategy because of its independent diplomacy.