NEW DELHI—On diplomatic platforms, China is calling for mutual support and an easing of military tensions with India, but covertly it continues to accelerate its use of cognitive warfare against the subcontinent, strategic analysts allege.
Indian External Affairs Minister Subrahmanyam Jaishankar and China’s top diplomat Wang Yi met on the sidelines of ASEAN in the Indonesian capital of Jakarta on July 14. Wang called for support instead of suspicion between the two giant neighbors.
“The two sides should support each other and accomplish things together, rather than wear each other down or suspect each other,” Mr. Wang said.
However strategic analysts call Mr. Wang’s words a bluff and say that since the bloody Galwan Valley conflict, Beijing has stepped up its cognitive warfare against India. Meanwhile, India is taking countermeasures….