India, April 14 -- Moves by India to fortify its kinetic capabilities vis-a-vis China are being closely followed within Southeast as well as East Asia.

On land, sea, air and cyberspace, the Narendra Modi government is scaling up capabilities designed to halt and reverse efforts by the CCP leadership to grab territory and other rights at India's expense. Since 2020, the buildup has succeeded in preventing another effort at land grabs of the kind that routinely took place in past times. At the same time, largely as a consequence of the overreach and overload into society and governance by the Pakistan military, that country is slipping into a state of chaos and unrest. The change is that the people (as distinct from the elite) in several c...