No amount of training can substitute for the actual experience of bullets raining down around you or seeing your soldiers get shot for the first time.Fighting various insurgencies is not considered gaining much real combat experience and China has more massive high mountains than India in lands. Hundreds of millions Chinese live in the mountains.
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As we have seen, Chinese soldiers have a tendency to cry when leaving their homes, what will happen when they face the Indians on the battlefield ?
The term battle hardened comes from this experience.