 The question is why have the Chinese chosen this particular time to move? What is it about India's situation that has made China act in such an aggressive way? What is it about this moment in time that has allowed the Chinese to have the confidence that they can move against a country like India? And to understand that you have to go into multiple spaces. Countries are protected not by one particular thing but by a confluence of forces, by a confluence of systems. So a country is protected by its foreign relationships, it is protected by its neighbourhood, it is protected by its economy, it is protected by the feeling that its people have, the vision that its people have and what has happened over the last six years that in all those areas India has been disturbed and disrupted. And I'll cover each one of them. Let's start with foreign policy. Our relationship with the outside world used to be with multiple countries. We had a relationship with America, strategic partnership with America I would say and that is very important. We had a relationship with Russia, we had a relationship with Europe and these countries used to help us maneuver in the world. Today our relationship has become transactional. We have a transactional relationship with the United States. We have disturbed our relationship with the Russians. We have a transactional relationship with Europe. Now let's come to our neighbourhood. Earlier Nepal was a friend, Bhutan was a friend, Sri Lanka was a friend. Our neighbourhood other than Pakistan was working with India and saw itself as being partnered with India. Today Nepal is angry with us. If you go to Nepal and you speak to the Nepali people, they are furious with what has happened. Sri Lanka has given a port to the Chinese. Maldives is disturbed, Bhutan is disturbed. So we have disrupted our foreign partners, we have disrupted our neighbourhood. Now let's come to the economy. Our pride, something that India used to go to the rest of the world and talk about, boast about. Worst economic growth, 50 years, no end in sight. Absolute disaster, unemployment, highest in 40-50 years. So our strengths have suddenly become our weaknesses. We told the government that look, please realise that we are becoming vulnerable. All these things are connected. They are not separate. When you look at a nation, you have to look at all these factors and you have to act, take into account all these factors. We told them listen, for God's sake, inject money into the economy, fire the economy and do it immediately, protect the small and medium businesses, refuse to do it. So today you have a country which is economically in trouble, in trouble as far as foreign policy is concerned, in trouble with its neighbours and that's why the Chinese have decided that this is possibly the best time to act and that is why they have acted. Chinese don't do anything without thinking about it strategically. In their mind they have mapped out the world and they are trying to shape the world. That's the scale of what they are doing. That is what Gwadar is, that is what Belt and Road is. It is a restructuring of the planet. So when you are thinking about the Chinese, you have to understand that. That's the level at which they are thinking. Now, at the tactical level, they are trying to improve their position whether it's Galuan, whether it's Demchok or whether it's Pangong Lake. The idea is to position themselves. They are disturbed by our highway. They want to make our highway redundant and if they are thinking larger scale, they want to do something with Pakistan in Kashmir. So it is not simply a border issue. It is a border issue designed to put pressure on the Prime Minister of India and they are thinking of putting pressure in a very particular way and what they are doing is they are attacking his image. They understand that in order for Mr. Narendra Modi to be an effective politician in order for Mr. Narendra Modi to survive as a politician he has to protect the idea of Chappan inch and this is the real idea the Chinese are attacking. They are basically telling Mr. Narendra Modi that if you do not do what we say we will destroy the idea of Mr. Narendra Modi as a strong leader. Now the question is how will Mr. Narendra Modi react? Will he take them on? Will he take on the challenge and say absolutely not? I am the Prime Minister of India. I do not care about my image. I am going to take you on or will he succumb to them? The worry I have so far is that the Prime Minister has succumbed. The worry I have is that Chinese are sitting in our territory today and the Prime Minister has said publicly that they are not which to me tells me that he is worried about his image and he is defending his image and if he allows the Chinese to understand that they can manipulate him because of his image the Indian Prime Minister will no longer be worth anything for India. If you deal with them for the position of strength you can work with them, you can get what you need and it can be actually done but if they sense weakness then you have had it. Well the first thing is you are not going to take on China without a vision and I do not mean a national vision. I mean an international vision, Belt and Road. An attempt to change the nature of the planet. India has to have a global vision. India now has to become an idea and it has to become a global idea. The thing that is going to protect India is actually thinking big. Of course we have this border issue and we have to resolve this border issue but we have to change our approach, we have to change how we think. This is the point at which the road parts if we go this way we become a major player if we go this way we become irrelevant and that is why I am aggravated because I can see that a huge opportunity is being lost. Why? Because we are not thinking long term because we are not thinking big and because we are disturbing our internal balance. We are fighting amongst each other. Just look at the politics. All day long, all day long, Indian is fighting Indian and it is because there is no clear cut vision going forward and I know that the Prime Minister is an opponent. My responsibility is to question him. My responsibility is to ask questions and put pressure on him so he does his work. His responsibility is to give the vision. It is not there. I can tell you, guaranteed it is not there and that is why China is in there today. It is pretty clear that the Chinese have entered our territory. This disturbs me. It makes frankly my blood boil. How can some other nations just come into our territory? Now, if you as a politician want me to keep quiet and lie to my people when I am absolutely convinced I have seen the satellite photos I speak to the ex-army people. If you want me to lie that the Chinese have not entered this country, I am not going to lie. I simply will not do it. I don't mind if my whole career goes to hell but I am not going to lie. I think the people who are lying about Chinese entering our country are the people who are not nationalistic. I think the people who are lying and who are saying the Chinese are not in India. They are the people who are not patriotic. So frankly, I don't care if it costs me politically. I don't care if I have no political career at all after that but I am going to say the truth as far as Indian territory is concerned.