They have a three million man military
That has a level of equipment mismatch that makes Germany in WW2 look good, is even more corrupt than the Russian Army in 1993, and cannot even manage to make a competent AKM clone with 100% domestic parts (which gunsmiths in the fucking Khyber Pass can do!). They rely almost exclusively on imports (read: castoffs and bargain bin surplus) from other nations for equipment.
That is largely composed of aging, obsolete Soviet-made vessels which
already have a reputation for being shoddily-built and that don't do well on the high seas. India not too long ago lost a fucking submarine by forgetting to close the hatches, do you think they're actually capable of trying to maintain those old ass Soviet rust buckets?
Plus they've got several regiments of Gurkhas, and those motherfuckers are next level.
That reputation comes from their service in the
British Army.
People give Russia flak for being "unable to beat Ukraine, a neighboring country", but Ukraine (at the beginning of the SMO) had the largest land army in Europe and they were filled with old Soviet stockpiles, their own "modernized" ex-Soviet hardware, and last-gen NATO equipment, and troops that were already combat-experienced from fighting in Donbass for almost 8 years while Russia was still shaking off over 20 years of institutional rot and administrative corruption.
India? India
literally couldn't execute a real offensive of any sort into Pakistan! Not even one that resulted in a long, drawn out siege with high casualties (like Bakhmut/Artemvosk)! The most India's "three million man military" accomplished was flinging some artillery and small arms potshots into some Pakistani villages right across the border, and some failed airstrikes.
So please, explain to me how
these incompetent retards are somehow going to be able to keep the People's Liberation Army in check, when India can't even supply its own military domestically? The
Japanese can do that, and they don't even technically HAVE a military!