The way New Delhi has foiled the Chinese move in Doklam to gain a vantage point to threaten the Siliguri corridor of India goes to show that the Chinese ploy of practising double standards with impunity is over, reported Voices Against Autocracy (VAA). India appears to have left behind the baggage of 1962. In all the subsequent confrontations, be it in Nathu La and Cho La in Sikkim in 1967, in Sumdorong Chu in Arunachal Pradesh in 1986, or in Galwan in Ladakh in 2020, the Indian army had the upper hand over the Chinese. Beijing’s days of bullying its way through to a position of advantage are over.
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