Tensions between India and China have risen again after Indian media recently revealed satellite images highlighting new Chinese villages in the India-China border region of Arunachal Pradesh, where residents recently staged demonstrations and burned images of Chinese President Xi Jinping.
An exclusive report by India’s New Delhi Television (NDTV) on the 18th sparked international attention. Satellite images published by Indian media show the sudden appearance of a new Chinese-built village in Arunachal Pradesh, an area where there was no construction in 2019 and where, a year later, neatly arranged buildings are being built on what Indian officials believe is Indian territory along the India-China border. Indian media reported that local people held demonstrations and burned images of Xi Jinping.
However, Professor Harsh Pant, an expert on international relations in New Delhi, said that according to reliable sources, the area has actually been under the jurisdiction of Beijing authorities since 1959. He is not surprised that China is building in the area, as Beijing has been building new structures in the area since the 1980s, ostensibly for civilian use, but actually for the military, since the area is not actually inhabited.
Professor Bunt commented that relations between India and China have taken a sharp turn for the worse since last year, when several Indian soldiers were killed by Chinese troops at the Himalayan border last summer, the first similar clash between India and China in recent decades. He believes the new crown Epidemic appears to have increased the Beijing government’s confidence because China is now the only large economy in the world with a functioning economy.
China’s position on the eastern section of the Sino-Indian border, also known as Tibetan South China, has been consistent and clear, and we have never recognized the so-called “Arunachal Pradesh” illegally established on Chinese territory,” a Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman said at a press conference this week. China’s normal construction activities in its own territory are entirely within its sovereignty.”
Indian officials have not reacted strongly to the above picture, but have simply shifted the blame to the rival Indian National Congress Party, which lost sovereignty over the area when India lost the war with China in the 1960s, when the ruling party was the Indian National Congress Party.
Indian military officials said the standoff between Indian and Chinese troops on the border has been going on for nine months, with both sides continuing to deploy troops, artillery, tanks and armored vehicles in very close proximity, according to another Indian media report cited by Chinese official media Global Times. Referring to the two-pronged threat from Pakistan and China, the Indian army chief of staff said the two together posed a formidable threat. “The combination of the two cannot be ruled out. It is an important part of our planning and strategy considerations.”
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