Satellite images released by Indian media show the Chinese side building houses and houses in the border area on January 18, 2021. ©Web
Tensions between India and China have risen again after Indian media recently revealed satellite images highlighting new Chinese villages along the India-China border in Arunachal Pradesh, where residents recently staged demonstrations and burned images of Chinese Communist Party President Xi Jinping.
An exclusive report by India’s New Delhi Television (NDTV) on 18 December 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 a number of Indian soldiers were killed by Chinese Communist troops at the Himalayan border last summer, the first similar conflict between India and China in recent decades. He believes the new crown (CCP virus) outbreak appears to have increased the Beijing government’s confidence because China is currently the only large economy in the world with a functioning economy.
Indian officials have not reacted strongly to the above images, but have simply shifted the blame to the rival Indian National Congress Party, as the region lost its sovereignty in the 1960s when India lost the war with the Chinese Communist Party, which was the ruling party at the Time.
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