{"id":77172,"date":"2022-12-15T15:00:43","date_gmt":"2022-12-15T04:00:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.aspistrategist.ru\/?p=77172"},"modified":"2022-12-15T22:48:39","modified_gmt":"2022-12-15T11:48:39","slug":"latest-border-clash-shows-china-is-continuing-its-calculated-aggression-towards-india","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.aspistrategist.ru\/latest-border-clash-shows-china-is-continuing-its-calculated-aggression-towards-india\/","title":{"rendered":"Latest border clash shows China is continuing its calculated aggression towards India"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"681\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-77177\" src=\"https:\/\/www.aspistrategist.ru\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/GettyImages-1236000481.jpg\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.aspistrategist.ru\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/GettyImages-1236000481.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.aspistrategist.ru\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/GettyImages-1236000481-205x136.jpg 205w, https:\/\/www.aspistrategist.ru\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/GettyImages-1236000481-768x511.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.aspistrategist.ru\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/GettyImages-1236000481-332x221.jpg 332w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n<p>In a confrontation on 9 December, a sizeable detachment of Chinese troops attempted to breach the razorwired Line of Actual Control (LAC) in the Yangtse area of the Tawang sector in India\u2019s northeastern state of Arunachal Pradesh. The intruders were beaten back with sticks and stones by Indian Army soldiers patrolling the area.<\/p>\n<p>China\u2019s shadow looms large over India, with cross-border threats surging since Xi Jinping came to power in 2013. The 69-year-old leader\u2019s ascendance to a historic third five-year presidential term has daunted India.<\/p>\n<p>New Delhi has been unable to resolve the border impasse since May 2020, when People\u2019s Liberation Army (PLA) troops breached the LAC, clashed with Indian soldiers and overran vast tracts of the eastern sector of the border Union Territory of Ladakh. Xi\u2019s troops also entered the Demchok and Chumar areas of Ladakh while he met Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi in India in 2014. It is profoundly offensive for a world leader to see his country under assault while he is hosting the attacker\u2019s leader on a state visit.<\/p>\n<p>India fears China is \u2018salami slicing\u2019\u2014scything through Indian territory with the intent of redrawing the LAC. Chinese troops have also opened additional fronts along the border with India\u2019s Himalayan states of Uttarakhand and Sikkim.<\/p>\n<p>The Yangtse clash may have been part of a wider design to unfold in days to come. This face-off was likely set up by senior Chinese commanders, since members of the PLA are extremely regimented and don\u2019t operate without orders.<\/p>\n<p>While the skirmish was brief, soldiers were wounded on both the sides. Twenty Indian soldiers were hurt and at least six of them needed to be airlifted for treatment to Guwahati in the adjoining state of Assam. The number of Chinese troops injured is believed to be higher. This was the first physical combat between the two sides since the deadly clash in the Galwan Valley in eastern Ladakh in June 2020 that took a toll of 20 Indian soldiers.<\/p>\n<p>The Indian government, and the military, have largely withheld information on the alarming developments at the LAC, the Himalayan frontier dividing the nuclear-armed neighbours. Members of the parliamentary opposition and the media were branded \u2018anti-national\u2019 when\u00a0they probed for answers.<\/p>\n<p>Under pressure, Defence Minister Rajnath Singh told parliament on Tuesday that three infantry units of the Indian Army had \u2018bravely stopped\u2019 the Chinese army from transgressing the LAC and unilaterally changing its status quo. \u2018I want to assure the House that no Indian soldier was killed or severely injured,\u2019 he said. \u2018I also assure the House that our Army can defend the country\u2019s territorial integrity and is ready to tackle any transgression.\u2019 He concluded, \u2018I firmly believe the House will support the bravery and courage of our armed forces.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>Despite three border agreements\u2014in 1993, 1996 and 2013\u2014on maintaining peace and stability along the LAC, Beijing has consistently disputed the demarcations.<\/p>\n<p>China has historically claimed the entire 83,743 square kilometres of Arunachal Pradesh at the eastern fringe of the LAC. In January 2021, Chinese workers backed by PLA troops crossed into the state to construct a village along its border with Tibet. India\u2019s Ministry of External Affairs viewed China\u2019s strategy of building civilian settlements in disputed frontier areas as part of its attempts to buttress its claims to the region. Beijing rebuffed this criticism, maintaining that the encroachment was \u2018beyond reproach\u2019 because it has never recognised Arunachal, which it calls Zangnan, or South Tibet.<\/p>\n<p>The last gunshots were fired in anger on the India\u2013China frontier in 1975 when four Indian paramilitary soldiers were shot dead in an ambush by the PLA at Tulung La in Arunachal Pradesh.<\/p>\n<p>Tawang enshrines the Tawang Monastery, which is sacred to the Tibetans; it was founded by the Merak Lama Lodre Gyatso in 1681 in accordance with the wishes of the fifth Dalai Lama. Tibet controlled Tawang until 1914, when it entered into an agreement with British India that delineated the boundary in this region along what became known as the McMahon Line. While China never recognised the agreement, the Tibetans too regarded their pact with the British as being conditional on Beijing\u2019s acceptance and deemed the McMahon Line \u2018invalid\u2019 when the Chinese refused to acquiesce.<\/p>\n<p>People in India have been looking to their leadership to resolve the threat of war.\u00a0Many are concerned that the government has made no resolute response even as India stands to forfeit a vast area, its soldiers are slain and maimed, and it is being outmanoeuvred by China militarily, diplomatically and politically.<\/p>\n<p>New Delhi\u2019s response will ultimately determine its standing in the global community and in its alliances.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a confrontation on 9 December, a sizeable detachment of Chinese troops attempted to breach the razorwired Line of Actual Control (LAC) in the Yangtse area of the Tawang sector in India\u2019s northeastern state of &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1336,"featured_media":77177,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[1163,52,69,1414],"class_list":["post-77172","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general","tag-borders","tag-china","tag-india","tag-pla"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v19.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Latest border clash shows China is continuing its calculated aggression towards India | The Strategist<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.aspistrategist.ru\/latest-border-clash-shows-china-is-continuing-its-calculated-aggression-towards-india\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Latest border clash shows China is continuing its calculated aggression towards India | The Strategist\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"In a confrontation on 9 December, a sizeable detachment of Chinese troops attempted to breach the razorwired Line of Actual Control (LAC) in the Yangtse area of the Tawang sector in India\u2019s northeastern state of ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.aspistrategist.ru\/latest-border-clash-shows-china-is-continuing-its-calculated-aggression-towards-india\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"The Strategist\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/ASPI.org\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2022-12-15T04:00:43+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2022-12-15T11:48:39+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/www.aspistrategist.ru\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/GettyImages-1236000481.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1024\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"681\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Sarosh Bana\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@ASPI_org\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@ASPI_org\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Sarosh Bana\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"4 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.aspistrategist.ru\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.aspistrategist.ru\/\",\"name\":\"The Strategist\",\"description\":\"ASPI&#039;s analysis and commentary site\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/www.aspistrategist.ru\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":\"required name=search_term_string\"}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-AU\"},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-AU\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.aspistrategist.ru\/latest-border-clash-shows-china-is-continuing-its-calculated-aggression-towards-india\/#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.aspistrategist.ru\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/GettyImages-1236000481.jpg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/www.aspistrategist.ru\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/GettyImages-1236000481.jpg\",\"width\":1024,\"height\":681,\"caption\":\"Indian Army soldiers stand next to a Bofors gun positioned at Penga Teng Tso ahead of Tawang, near the Line of Actual Control (LAC), neighbouring China, in India's Arunachal Pradesh state on October 20, 2021. 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