China sets up 3 villages in the tri-junction area.
The tri-junction between India, China and Bhutan lies in the areas of western Arunachal Pradesh and China has constructed at least 3 villages in the Bum La pass of the area. The construction site is just 5 kilometers away from the tri-junction areas. The construction here could be considered a substantial step of China, towards strengthening its territorial claims through the Arunachal Pradesh frontier.
Dr. Brahma Chellaney who is an author and a geo-strategist was quoted saying that “China has been using a strategy of settling Han Chinese and Tibetan members of the Communist Party along the Indian border to strengthen its territorial claim and escalate border intrusions. Like it used fishermen in the South China Sea, China uses civilian resources-herders and grazers-as the tip of the sphere to intrude into Indian-patrolled Himalayan areas.”
For nearly eight months the face of between Indian and Chinese soldiers went on for at least a period of eight months along the Line of Actual Control (LAC). Military talks so far have failed to get a breakthrough so both the sides have deployed heavy troops in spite of harsh winters.
A week after high-resolution satellite images appeared of a Chinese village construction inside the Bhutanese territory near the Arunachal border. The village is reportedly just 9 kilometers away from the Doklam site where in 2017 both the Chinese and Indian soldiers had a faceoff.
The Chinese People’s Liberation Army (PLA) has always been attempting a ‘salami slicing’ according to the experts into the Indian territory. The accession of the opponent’s territory bit by bit is known as ‘salami slicing.’
The Chinese government’s propagandist Global Times indicates that the authorities are planning to migrate 3222 people of 960 families to the areas which are infirmly monitored in the border areas on a wilful basis in Cona which is a critical border county in Shannan Prefecture. These villages are said to have access to water, electricity and internet already
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