Originally posted by kuku
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Tracks coming in about 2-3 kms with no permanent fixtures. Road blocks erected. No sign of camps, habitation or permanent occupation. He does not mention extent so its in some areas only one assumes.
What do we do to stop this ? a barbed wire means we're delineating the border which the Chinese will then say they keep Aksai Chin. The govt does not want to concede that so they refuse to settle the border and continue to claim Aksai Chin. That is the face saving approach GOI employs.
The next question is more interesting. What stops India doing the same salami slicing approach to China. We do make incursions into their territory but we never set up anything permanent. We just patrol.
We never push them. We don't have the guts to annex their territory.
We don't grab territory permanently like the Chinese do.
Until we can do that they won't believe we're as strong as we think.
So in future we can expect in some parts of Arunachal a replay of what happened in Ladakh.
The Indian side in AP is the rainward part of the slope not leeward. Extremely wet and forested. Will be difficult to detect encroachments as its heavily forested and satellites can't see under the forest canopy. Any tracks formed will have grass grow over if not used frequently. Erasing any activity after a year or two. But the tracks there are not going away. So the PLA is patrolling there and there aren't any reciprocal tracks from the Indian side up to those same areas. So those parts are in danger.
The terrain in AP is harder than in Ladakh according to those that served there.
Second, there is something strange he mentions here. We map Chinese territory but not Indian territory for some reason. The media or the govt won't do it.
So the commanders have no clue of what happens on the Indian side. They have no access to satellite imagery on the India side !!!
We may look at Indian territory but there are no permanent copies stored.
Why ??
The reason is odd, having possession of satellite imagery of the Indian side leaves you open to accusations of being a spy (!)
Easy to get scapegoated for whatever.
AIM's on full GOI critique mode as usual
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