Communist China’s founding father, Mao Zedong, called Tibet China’s right palm, and described its ‘five fingers’ as being Nepal, Sikkim, Ladakh, Bhutan and Arunachal Pradesh, all to be ‘liberated’. Decades later, none of the so-called ‘fingers’ are part of modern China, while the legitimacy of Tibet itself remains testy and irksome for the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), which
China woos young Tibetans to join PLA
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China woos young Tibetans to join PLA
Rajat Pandit / TNN / Jul 22, 2021, 02:54 IST
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NEW DELHI: China has further cranked up efforts to recruit young Tibetans in the People’s Liberation Army (PLA) and local militias as well as to act as guides along the border, even as it continues to consolidate its military positions and upgrade its airbases facing India.
Indian security establishment officials on Wednesday said latest intelligence reports also show China has even made it “mandatory” for each Tibetan family to send at least one young male member for recruitment in the PLA in some areas like the Ngari Prefecture of the Tibet Autonomous Region (TAR).
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CDS Gen Bipin Rawat
NEW DELHI: China has realised its soldiers need to be better trained to be deployed in the mountainous terrain along the Line of Actual Control, said Chief of Defence Staff General Bipin Rawat on Tuesday, amidst reports the People s Liberation Army has stepped-up efforts to recruit Tibetans in militias along the frontier. Chinese deployments on the border with India have undergone a change, especially after incidents that happened in Galwan and other areas last year. Thereafter, they realised that they need to be better trained and better prepared, said Gen Rawat. Their soldiers mainly come from the civilian street. They are enlisted for a short duration. They don t have much experience of fighting in these kinds of areas and operating in this kind of terrain, he told a news agency.
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