China tried to wage an “undeclared war” against India through cyberattacks and indicated that it was “my way or no other way”, New Delhi’s most senior military official said on Thursday about the drawn-out border stand-off between the neighbouring countries that is believed to have brought the countries to the brink of open conflict.
General Bipin Rawat, the Chief of Defence Staff of the Indian Army, said in a virtual discussion at the annual Raisina Dialogue that China’s creation of “disruptive technologies which can paralyse systems of the adversary” had emboldened Beijing and made it assertive.
In June last year, amid the stand-off, at least 20 Indian soldiers and an unspecified number of Chinese troops were left dead following the first fatal clash between the two countries in decades.
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