There is a general feeling that China will be easily able to defeat India if there is ever a war between the two countries. This seems to originate from what happened in the 1962 war. My thought is that if China ever decides to attack India, it will have to face the more matured Indian military which has been fighting and winning wars since 1962. Meanwhile the Chinese have lost a border war with Vietnam. The soldiers of PLA (People’s Liberation Army) do not have any real war experience when compared to Indian Army which fought and won the Kargil war in a mountainous terrain. And the motivation of the people of free India to repel an attack would be more as witnessed after the 26/11 terrorist attacks. People including me will volunteer in the millions to fight such a war, whereas China will force its oppressed people to join the PLA and fight the war. Even when India was an occupied country during World War II, we had the largest volunteer army in the world while America and other countries had to use the draft to make their people to fight.

I am not going to say India will defeat China or China will defeat India. It will all be decided by the terrain the war is fought in, how widespread the war will be, and the resolve of the people to fight a long and costly war.