Abhijit Bhattacharyya | India needs to tackle China the way that it treats Indians Published Jul 26, 2021, 2:53 am IST Updated Jul 26, 2021, 2:53 am IST Blind or not, Indians appear supinely negligent to the Chinese threat Clearly, the various “bans” and other edicts by the Indian government to keep out Chinese-made products in the aftermath of the Galwan attack in June 2020 had no practical effect in the marketplace. Representational Image. In India, public memory is of course notoriously short -- for nothing else can explain how the people of this country remain so indifferent towards the chronic hostility of the Communist Party of China (CPC) towards our land and its people -- much more so perhaps than even Pakistan, against whom Indians are at most times up in arms. Why do we look at China as if we were the “Blind Men of Hindoostan”, as the late Gen. Krishnaswami Sundarji, one of this country’s most distinguished soldier scholars who rose to be Army Chief in the 1980s, had once put it.