India faces security challenges on its eastern and western borders from China, Pakistan, and other western threats. China's strategy follows Sun Tzu and uses deception, while India's strategy involves cooperation, containment, competition, and conflict to deal with China across different spectrums. Both countries must prepare and defend across air, ground, and water territories from conventional and nuclear threats.

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India’s Security
Eastern
SluggishEconomyBullish
Non Fatal
Some Capacity
Ruinous
Testbed
Fatal
Non Fatal
No Capacity
Western Threats
Challenges on Border - China & Pak
Eastern
ConventionalWarNuclear
Air,
Ground,
Water
Air,
Ground,
Water
Western Weapon Delivery
Air,
Ground ,
Water
Air,
Ground
China’s Strategy
following Sun Tzuvian tactics of “war as an art in deception”, is to employ
co-option, coercion and concealment
India’s Strategy
to deal with China is following the spectrum of
cooperation, containment, competition & conflict