Ahead of the third anniversary of the India-China Galwan clash, Senior Colonel Zhao Xiaozhuo of the PLA Academy of Military Sciences, reminded us, at the recent Shangri-La Dialogue in Singapore, of China’s “complex and systematic” build-up of defence capabilities, adding ominously: “India is unlikely to catch up to China in the coming decades because of its weak industrial infrastructure.” It is up to India’s decision-makers to either dismiss this comment as an attempt at psychological warfare or to use it as a whip for accelerating the atmanirbharta campaign. The harsh fact is, that despite being a nuclear-weapon state and space...