PM Modi’s visit to the front and his inspirational speech for our armed forces versus Xi Jinping

I saw PM Modi address our troops on the frontline today, as an Army brat I was speechless. I had never seen another PM in my lifetime do this. His speech was spectacular but I worried about the fact that he had not taken the mandatory 24-hour period to acclimatize. I had gone to Leh on a visit to Ladakh around 10 years ago and although I was a healthy person in my fifty’s our guides made it clear to us that we would have to rest for 24 hours before we could take off for visits and sightseeing.

But PM Modi has spent Diwali in Siachen with our soldiers, this is the highest and most deadly area in the world for the Armed Forces to defend.  

Modi has been the only world leader I know who has worked without a single day off for six years straight. He works 12 to 16 hours a day even when he visits foreign countries. He has done more for India in six years than any leader in India that has been there before him. I could outline the successes here but it would exceed what a blog allows. 

Prime Minister Narendra Modi made a surprise visit to a forward post in Ladakh as a morale booster for our forces deployed there. Modi showed how hands on he was when it came to the defense of the country. This he did during Doklam as well, when according to Chinese defense analysts, Xi Jinping and the CCP were shocked that India would go to fight over land that was a part of Bhutan.

The PM’s speech was directed at our frontline warriors and he said in short:

Your bravery and dedication is unparalleled. Your courage is higher than the highest regions where you all are stationed. Bharat Mata’s enemies have seen your fire and fury. Your arms are as strong as the mountains that surround you. Your confidence, determination and belief is as immovable as the peaks here.

The conditions in which you all deliver your best are among the toughest in the world, and you have proven time and again that the Indian armed force is mightier and better than everyone else in the world. What you have done here, the message you have sent, is a message that has reached the world. It has been a bold statement.

I want to salute you all and all the soldiers who laid down their lives for the motherland. Every corner, every stone, every river and every pebble here in Ladakh knows it is an integral part of India.

Hearing these points made by one of the world’s most respected leaders, the Chinese spokesman was quick to react saying India should not do anything to stymie the discussions under way, which really means they are wary and scared. 

From various news sources I have heard that China and Xi Jinping are under extreme pressure now. The People’s Liberation Army (PLA) is upset about the fact that India honoured its brave hearts with the sendoff they deserved and every Indian saw this on live news but China has not even reported on their dead in Galwan and citizens on Weibo actually asked why?

I saw several protests taking place by veterans in China in 2018/ 2019, which were not on the local networks, and every time the army vets were hauled up by the police. The fact is that Chinese soldiers do not have a dedicated pension plan or health benefits and each state has to decide this. With some states being poorer and with rampant corruption, the Veterans are left to fight cases in courts that follow the orders of the CPC.

In addition, as I write this, China due to Xi’s and the CCP policies have alienated China from most of the civilized world. With the draconian steps introduced in Hong Kong; the way the Coronavirus was literally exported to the planet; the 300 plus debt to GDP that China has built up; the failure of the Belt and Road Initiative; and a dedicated push by the world to decouple itself from the supply  chain of China, the perfect storm is brewing to take this international pariah out of the world economy.

To make it worse China is going through the worst floods it has faced in 50 years and experts say the Three Gorges Dam could collapse. But even if it does not, 29 provinces in China are facing billions of dollars’ worth of damage and major cities have had whole blocks washed away by floods, landslides and factories under water.

It is reported that Xi Jinping has left Beijing since Beijing became the new hot spot for the virus. 

With Hong Kong burning and China being called out for all its mad incursions into the South China Sea, at this moment of time it seems like Xi is facing what has been written about in classics:

In American literature, the character of Prometheus speaks the phrase: “Whom the gods would destroy they first make mad.”

This keeps coming to my mind when I research Xi Jinping and what his ambitions have done — to alienate every country that was trading with China and helping it to become the second largest economy in the world. He has single handedly created the perfect storm, to make China look hegemonic, deceptive, and untrustworthy in every sphere and he has created a backlash that will either haunt him or destroy him and his party.