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China had been "browbeating smaller neighbours like Nepal and Bhutan" without paying any costs and it took India to "challenge the neighbourhood bully" writes former Army Chief General Manoj Mukund Naravane while recounting the 2020 Galwan clash.
'Jo ucchit samjho woh karo' (Do whatever you deem appropriate), this is what Defence Minister Rajnath Singh told the then Army Chief Gen MM Naravane on the night of August 31, 2020 following a tense situation with the Chinese PLA.
In his memoir Four Stars of Destiny, Naravane recounts Singh s direction as well as a flurry of phone calls between the defence minister, external affairs minister, the national security advisor and the chief of defence staff that night on the sensitive situation.
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