India has bolstered its defences and accused Beijing of being “provocative” amid a new flare-up on the India-China border. Now, China has bitten back.
quotes government officials as saying China has hastily upgraded several air bases in the area by building hardened shelters and extending runways.
These and a suspected new surface-to-air missile facility are being built to support thousands of fresh Chinese troops moved into the Ladakh region before and after the June clash. The Chinese leader told the seventh Central Symposium on Tibet Work, held in Beijing on Saturday, that the Communist Party must demand absolute loyalty to “counter major battles and prevent major risks”.
“If Tibetans really benefited as much from Chinese leadership as Xi and other officials claim, then China wouldn’t have to fear separatism and wouldn’t need to subject Tibetans to political re-education,” ICT president Matteo Mecacci said. “The Indian army undermined the consensus reached in the previous multi-level talks between the two sides and once again illegally crossed the line on the south bank of Pangong Lake and near the Reqin Pass, blatantly provoking and causing tension on the border,” he said.
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