General shift in the way Chinese deal with the world: Shivshankar Menon

All governments, I think, feel under pressure in the present situation because none of them has covered itself in glory in dealing with the pandemic, the former NSA said

Mr Menon let’s now come to that critical question: why have the Chinese chosen to do this now in the middle of an international Covid crisis and an increasingly depressing economic crisis? Why now?

Well it seems to me that this is not just signalling because if it’s signalling, it’s the most inefficient way of signalling, where we’re all guessing what the signal is. Some people say it’s because of the change in the status in Ladakh and Jammu and Kashmir, some people say it’s because of our relationship with the United States, other people have other explanations, so it’s not