Three Ways How Pakistan Threat Can be Deterred | Air Vice Marshal Kapil Kak (Retd) EXCLUSIVE

Retired Air Vice Marshal Kapil Kak lays out three strategic ways Pakistan can be dissuaded. First, Pakistan's own security challenges which will make expansion of China’s CPEC less attractive. Second, through improving diplomatic relations between India and China to reduce hostile alignments. And third, by leveraging India’s growing power and influence on the global stage.

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00:00There are multiple ways by which Pakistan can be dissuaded.

00:06First and foremost is its internal security dimension.

00:12If Chinese are hesitant to move forward on the CPEC, incidentally, the CPEC has not moved much,

00:20even though it's about 12 years old now. Primarily because the Chinese engineers,

00:27personnel are being targeted constantly, even though there is one full division.

00:34Nearly 10,000 Pakistani troops are involved in providing security to the Chinese plans and

00:44activities and personnel right along from Akshay Chin up to Gwadar. So that is one aspect which

00:55will be a natural buffer against any damage because Pakistan's own people are not in support of it.

01:04Very rightly so because the benefits of the Gwadar port and whatever else happens do not come to

01:11Pakistanis and that's what the Baluch are crying hoes about for the last 10 years.

01:17They are not coming to the Baluch where it is. This is Baluchistan. But they are going to other

01:23elements of territories and elements of Pakistan which is to their great shock and anger.

01:32From our side, I think we will have, we have already done a move forward with the Chinese.

01:39It has been a, it hasn't been sudden but it was certainly triggered by President Trump's

01:48static threats and the possibility and prospect that we saw before us of

01:57making it clear not only to President Trump and the United States that we have other options but actually

02:05exercise that option through a more positive forward movement of the, on the China, India China track.

02:13And we have seen the results of that in the recent past. The relations are improving.

02:19That will also serve as a counter to the Pakistanis. And as it is, the Chinese are most unhappy

02:28with the way Pakistanis are approaching the Americans. Whether it is the crypto deal,

02:33whether it is the linkage with the family of President Trump as has been reported by

02:40media people like yourself. What are the factors? Because Chinese have taken Pakistan as a friend

02:50to use their language and grammar higher than the Himalayas and deeper than the mountains,

02:57that kind of relationship. But that relationship seems to be coming under pressure

03:02because of Pakistan now moving more and more towards the Americans. And so in the global power

03:09configuration, we had no choice but to start to do some degree of improvement of relations with China.

03:17That would be the second factor. The third factor is what is happening very naturally. India being a huge

03:25market. India's economic cloud as one of the largest growing economies in the world at roughly 6.5 to 7%

03:33every year for the last 20 years and more. And that is a substantial capability enhancement,

03:42which serves as a kind of power of induction, of inducement, of attraction to markets and businesses

03:59in the Western world especially to invest in India. So it's a circular issue that you appeal to them,

04:06not because of any like Pakistan going down on its knees, but by showing the power of India,

04:15therefore the benefit is not only mutual, but also benefits the investor. So if that happens,

04:21then if we are able to enhance our growth rate and per capita, which is much more important,

04:28because we are still at the lower income country of 1170 US dollars per capita to about 4492

04:42per capita. We are in that range. We will get trapped there. We have to get out of that range.

04:48And once you have comprehensive national power, which includes economic power, knowledge power,

04:55technology power, and of course, most of all military power. If you have that package well done,

05:02the concerns you raised and the points you made about how we can neutralize the efforts by China and

05:12Pakistan together through CPAC and then Pakistan using that route to target India through cross-border

05:19terrorism. That cross-border terrorism threshold has now certainly, certainly changed.

05:27We may not call it new normal, but certainly deterrence levels have been made obvious by Operation Sindhu.

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