This month's clash between Indian and Chinese soldiers at Yangtse in Arunachal Pradesh, weeks after President Xi Jinping began his unprecedented new five-year term, spells danger of 2023 too ending up as yet another blank year in the bilateral ties which nosedived after the PLA’s misadventures in eastern Ladakh in 2020.
The Chinese People s Liberation Army (PLA) recently conducted a series of tactical drills in the high-altitude plateau region of Southwest China featuring the live-fire shooting of long-range rocket artillery, a type of weapon analysts said on Sunday works particularly well in such terrain and will help the PLA safeguard national sovereignty and territorial integrity.
The border conflict is made all the more explosive due to the role American imperialism is playing in inciting India to take a harder line against China.
Earlier in the day, defence minister Rajnath Singh told the parliament that Chinese troops had 'tried to transgress the LAC in Yangtse area of Tawang Sector and unilaterally change the status quo' on December 9.
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