中国国防部威胁要给印度一个“惨痛的教训 ” ， 信誓旦旦地表示任何冲突都将会导致比1962年中印战争“更大的损失 ” 。 当时，中国在一次喜马拉雅山区边境纠纷中入侵了印度，在几周时间里造成了严重破坏。
China’s defense ministry has threatened to teach India a “bitter lesson,” vowing that any conflict would inflict “greater losses” than the Sino-Indian War of 1962, when China invaded India during a Himalayan border dispute and inflicted major damage within a few weeks.