What the China-India Border Dispute is Really About / Ladakh Standoff: Indian Armed Forces Outfoxed China / Why China is interested in Arunachal Pradesh (Tawang) | India China border conflict / Tawang clash / Along The Burma Border In Arunachal Pradesh:
2024. 8. 20. 12:09ㆍ아시아 소식/아주소식
"#China, #pakistan #ladakh Front: Roads Are Like Tree
s. Plant One & A Forest Develops: DG, BRO" &
Leh, Ladakh, & Tawang, Arunachal p.
What the China-India Border Dispute is Really About
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The boundary between China and India represents the longest contested border on the planet. Confrontations between the two sides have turned deadly in recent years, as China becomes increasingly aggressive in the region.
Ladakh Standoff: Indian Armed Forces Outfoxed China
India-China military standoff continues for over 7 months from 5th May along the Line of Actual Control (LAC). BharatShakti was the first media house which reached the forward frontiers of eastern Ladakh to gauge the readiness and preparedness of Indian Armed Forces and caught glimpses of how it has outfoxed the Chinese People's Liberation Army's attempted military coercion.
Continuing China Talks But Maintaining Robust LAC Posture: Army Chief
NEW DELHI: Talks with China are continuing at both military and diplomatic levels but we are also maintaining a robust posture along the Line of Actual Control (LAC), says Army Chief General Manoj Pande. In an exclusive interview with StratNews Global Editor-in-Chief Nitin A. Gokhale, Gen. Pande also answered questions about the controversy surrounding the civilian deaths in J&K's Poonch sector. Investigation into the alleged custodial torture and death of three civilians will be done in a “fair, transparent and time-bound manner”, Gen. Pande has assured. Relatives claim that the three men were detained by the Army for questioning in connection with a terrorist attack in which four soldiers were killed last month. Strict action will be taken against anybody found guilty, stepping out of line or whoever hasn’t followed rules of engagement, the Army Chief said. I have told my men to act in a professional manner and make sure to engage with the local community, the General said. Tune in for more.
India's Infra Thrust To Ladakh: Countering China & Pakistan
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India’s military is in the fourth winter of its advanced forward deployment against China’s People’s Liberation Army (PLA) forces along the Line of Actual Control (LAC) in eastern Ladakh. China’s renewed aggression in 2020 led to the deadly Galwan clashes in June that year, with the consequent military buildup and standoff. Both sides continue to engage at the military, diplomatic and political level. But the shattering of trust, protocols and agreements means India is on perpetual guard in the present while ramping up its preparedness for the future.
StratNews Global’s team of Amitabh P. Revi, Rohit Pandita and Karan Marwaha travels along alpine altitudes through the frozen desert landscape in eastern Ladakh and Siachen to bring you this series: The Himalayan Frontier. These ground reports document the sustained infrastructure push in road connectivity and air bridges, record substantial progress in alternate axes that are in play and are being planned, and capture on camera how the Indian Army, the Border Roads Organisation (BRO) and the Indian Air Force’s women, men and machines are honing their all-weather readiness during another winter, against the two-front threat from China and Pakistan.
In this episode, we travel from Manali, through the Atal Tunnel under the Rohtang Pass and drive on the Darcha-Padam-Nimmu (NPD) road to Leh. This is a crucial third axis to Leh that will ensure all-weather connectivity for India's military and civilians, even when upto fifteen foot high snow walls usually close passes as high as 17,000+ feet for months in the winter. The Border Roads Organisation (BRO) is the nodal agency for this infrastructural push and we travel with their personnel to understand their engineering achievements through bone-chilling alpine altitudes, how they drill through mountain ranges, lay bridges across fast-moving rivers and the challenges at these heights, temperatures and topographies.
NPD Road: Critical Connectivity To China,
Pakistan Himalayan Fronts In Ladakh
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In 'The Himalayan Frontier', Part IV, we complete our journey to Leh on the strategic third, alternate axis—the Darcha-Padam-Nimu (NPD) Road, which we started in episode III. The route provides critical connectivity for defence logistics to and civilian development around the Northern China-occupied Tibet border or Line of Actual Control (LAC), the Line of Control (LoC), and the Actual Ground Position Line (AGPL) in Siachen with Pakistan. It is shielded from both the India-China border and the frontier with Pakistan, unlike the other two axes. A StratNews Global team of Amitabh P. Revi, Rohit Pandita, and Karan Marwaha travels during the fourth winter of India's forward deployment post Xi Jinping's aggression that led to the deadly Galwan clashes in 2020.
The freezing temperatures highlight one of the several challenges the Border Roads Organisation (BRO) faces in recce-ing, tracing, drilling through the mighty ranges, and building black-top roads on this route. India's infrastructure development has seen a sustained thrust, especially after the Chinese People's Liberation Army (PLA) salami-slicing tactics in border areas. In part II of this series, the Indian Army Chief, General Manoj Pande told StratNews Global Editor-in-Chief Nitin A. Gokhale in an exclusive interview, that talks with China are continuing at both military and diplomatic levels but India is maintaining a robust posture along the LAC. Northern Army Commander Lt Gen. Upendra Dwivedi also told Nitin Gokhale in Part I, that the “situation is stable but sensitive and not normal”.
This series continues with an interview of Lt Gen Raghu Srinivasan, the Director General, BRO at Chiling near Leh, ground reports that document the consistent infrastructure push in road connectivity and air bridges, and capture on camera how the Indian Army, the Border Roads Organisation (BRO), and the Indian Air Force’s women, men and machines are honing their all-weather readiness during another winter, against the two-front threat from China and Pakistan.
"#China, #pakistan #ladakh Front: Roads Are Like Trees.
Plant One & A Forest Develops: DG, BRO"
https://youtu.be/2Wm_Xy10328?si=V_q5QSPjB4RF7tIX
Chiling, Ladakh: "Making a road is a measure of a nation's sovereignty. It exercises command and control, and it says that these are my people". Lt Gen Raghu Srinivasan, the Director General of the Border Roads Organisation (BRO) says of the critical road connectivity being built up in Eastern Ladakh and Siachen in the backdrop of the two-front threat from China and Pakistan. In this exclusive interview with StratNews Global's Amitabh P. Revi on the frozen Zanskar River 'Chadar' Trail at Chiling near Leh in Ladakh, the DG notes "The impetus has over the last five or six years been a surge in what we are planning to do and are doing in Ladakh. The amount of projects which are being planned at the National and the Union Territory levels, the amount of funding, which is provided, and the way that projects are being cleared, all of it is phenomenal. We've not seen anything like it." Watch the complete interview with Lt Gen Raghu Srinivasan, the DG of the BRO in our series, 'The Himalayan Frontier'. Part V.
On the differences in road infrastructure in China-occupied Tibet and across the LAC, Lt Gen Srinivasan points out, "the Tibetan Plateau is at a lower altitude-between 12000 to 14000 feet. And it's a flat tabletop. There are no mountain ranges. So, whatever you're constructing is on a flat piece of ground. That's number one. Number two, the mountains are the watershed. That means whatever snow or moisture is going to come is going to stop in our portion. Tibet really is a flat, barren, cold desert. For anyone who constructs roads, moisture or water is a great enemy. That's what we need to work on. And see that we have ways by which we have adequate drainage. So whatever roads we construct are not washed away. Then starting from the south, you have the great Himalayan range, the Ladakh Range, and the Karakoram. There are a series of ranges. We have a very fragile mountain base. They are young mountains in terms of the Himalayas, and these are landslide-prone. With moisture, they become avalanche-prone and naturally you keep ascending, and you keep gaining height and then keep descending and losing height. So, the zig-zags that we have in each of these is essentially to get over a series of mountain ranges, which we have over an expanse of Ladakh, which is approximately 60,000 square kilometres".
SNG's team of Amitabh P. Revi, Rohit Pandita, and Karan Marwaha documented their journey to Leh on the strategic third, alternate axis—the Darcha-Padam-Nimu (NPD) Road, in episode III and episode IV. The route provides critical connectivity for defence logistics to and civilian development around the Northern China-occupied Tibet border or Line of Actual Control (LAC), the Line of Control (LoC), and the Actual Ground Position Line (AGPL) in Siachen with Pakistan. It is shielded from both the India-China border and the frontier with Pakistan, unlike the other two axes. StratNews Global's team travels during the fourth winter of India's forward deployment post Xi Jinping's aggression that led to the deadly Galwan clashes in 2020. The freezing temperatures highlight one of the several challenges the BRO faces in recce-ing, tracing, drilling through the mighty ranges, and building black-top roads on this route. India's infrastructure development has seen a sustained thrust, especially after China's People's Liberation Army (PLA) salami-slicing tactics in border areas.
Why China is interested in Arunachal Pradesh (Tawang) | India China border conflict / Tawang clash
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Apr 15, 2021
In this video we will learn why China is interested in Arunachal Pradesh and especially the region of Tawang valley.
Along The Burma Border In Arunachal Pradesh: Pangsau Pass To Vijaynagar
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Arunachal Pradesh & Assam: In this ground report, StratNews Global travels along the Burma border in eastern Arunachal Pradesh from Pangsau Pass to Vijaynagar. In the third and last in our series, 'East Of The Northeast', we fly on board the lifeline provided by the Chinooks of the Indian Air Force's Mighty Talons 124 Helicopter Unit to one of the eastern most inhabited areas and Advanced Landing Grounds of the country. En route and on location, Lt Gen P.C. Nair, Director General, Assam Rifles, Brig Swarn Singh, DIG, 25 Sector and Col Mohit Verma, Commandant, 19 Assam Rifles explain the strategic significance of how India discovered, secured and settled the critical Vijaynagar bowl.
Our team of Amitabh P. Revi and Rohit Pandita travels to Dibrugarh, Lekhapani, Jairampur, Pangsau Pass, Jorhat, Chabua and Vijaynagar, connecting the dots of history to explain the critical importance of these little-known border areas. We document the path-breaking Ledo or Stilwell road, the Pangsau Pass and how NSCN and ULFA insurgents attacked the post there in the run-up to Independence Day in 2022 and re-visit the Vijaynagar Bowl and the history of how two Assam Rifles expeditions, the second led by Brig (later) Major General) A.S.Guraya changed how history and geography are now, and how they fit into India's 'Act East' policy.
Along The Burma Border In Arunachal Pradesh: Pangsau Pass To Vijaynagar
https://youtu.be/77Rfg3b4UQc?si=0H5rtOfAz09_WMoS
Arunachal Pradesh & Assam: In this ground report, StratNews Global travels along the Burma border in eastern Arunachal Pradesh from Pangsau Pass to Vijaynagar. In the third and last in our series, 'East Of The Northeast', we fly on board the lifeline provided by the Chinooks of the Indian Air Force's Mighty Talons 124 Helicopter Unit to one of the eastern most inhabited areas and Advanced Landing Grounds of the country. En route and on location, Lt Gen P.C. Nair, Director General, Assam Rifles, Brig Swarn Singh, DIG, 25 Sector and Col Mohit Verma, Commandant, 19 Assam Rifles explain the strategic significance of how India discovered, secured and settled the critical Vijaynagar bowl.
Our team of Amitabh P. Revi and Rohit Pandita travels to Dibrugarh, Lekhapani, Jairampur, Pangsau Pass, Jorhat, Chabua and Vijaynagar, connecting the dots of history to explain the critical importance of these little-known border areas. We document the path-breaking Ledo or Stilwell road, the Pangsau Pass and how NSCN and ULFA insurgents attacked the post there in the run-up to Independence Day in 2022 and re-visit the Vijaynagar Bowl and the history of how two Assam Rifles expeditions, the second led by Brig (later) Major General) A.S.Guraya changed how history and geography are now, and how they fit into India's 'Act East' policy.
Situation Along LAC Stable But Not Normal: Northern Army Commander
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UDHAMPUR, J&K: More than three and a half years after the standoff between Indian and Chinese troops along the Line of Actual Control (LAC) in Eastern Ladakh began, the “situation is stable but sensitive and not normal,” says Northern Army Commander Lt Gen. Upendra Dwivedi. In the first of our ground reports in our series, 'The Himalayan Frontier', in this exclusive interview with StratNews Global Editor-in-Chief Nitin A. Gokhale at the Northern Command headquarters, he said of the seven friction points, five have been resolved and there’s a need to re-establish trust. Engagement is on at various levels, including between the commanding officers so that localized issues can be sorted out, he added. Tune in for more.
The Guns Of Kyapho & PTSO
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Tawang Sector: In our documentary series, 'Along The China Front: Commanding The Tawang Heights', Part IV, we travel from Tawang to the Kyapho model border post along the Tibet border and the Pankang Teng Tso or PTSO Lake area to get a glimpse of the Indian Army's artillery firepower at these high altitudes. The StratNews Global team of Amitabh P. Revi and Rohit Pandita document the criticality in dominating heights and the game changing role of artillery at these elevations.
As Lt Gen Sanjay Kulkarni (Retd), the Former DG, Infantry and Ex-Brigade Commander, Tawang Sector, makes clear, "holding posts at heights (is an) absolute necessity and the Chinese get the correct message that they don't mess around with the Indians." Brig S.K. Chatterji (Retd), the former Battery Commander of India's first ever Bofors Unit, which was deployed in the Tawang Sector after the Sumdurong Chu incursion, who is currently Editor of BharatShakti says, "the guy on the top has a tremendous advantage, adding "without artillery fire being really intense, you cannot possibly put your bet on trying to win the battle. It's the decisive factor."
Yangtse: How India Beat Back PLA Incursions & Where
The Army Looks Down On Chinese Positions
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Yangtse: In the fifth and final episode of 'Along The China Front: Commanding The Tawang Heights', StratNews Global's team of Amitabh P. Revi and Rohit Pandita report from Yangtse. We travel to and through the area to document the past, present, and future of Yangtse. After the deadly Galwan clashes in 2020, the Chinese attempted similar incursions, at the other extremity of the LAC, in the eastern sector in Arunachal Pradesh. Both were literally beaten back. Since the Sumdurong Chu standoff, India has occupied the dominating heights, Lt Gen Sanjay Kulkarni(Retd), Former DG, Infantry points out, saying, "Yangtse is a position of strength. When (India) you occupy that particular height. They always feel that they're being looked down upon and everything is right under our noses. They don't like that," adding, they came "with an intention.
But, our vigilance and preparation prevented them from doing what they probably thought they would (like) at Galwan." Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance (ISR) is the only way to survive, the Ex-Brigade Commander in Tawang insists, whether with "drones, satellites or surveillance". There have been reports of real-time U.S. intelligence during the December 2022 foiled PLA attempt, but, Claude Arpi, Sinologist and Tibetologist dismisses tactical intelligence sharing as "exaggerated", even though strategic cooperation including intelligence is on the up-swing.
Watch this documentary as we travel to the revered Chumi Gyatse or Holy Waterfalls at Yangtse. Benedict Rogers, China Analyst, and Author also calls out the Chinese Communist Party's (CCP) double standards in claiming the area as being extremely "ironic", pointing to the CCP's propensity to on the one hand "repress religion" while trying "to weaponise it when it suits them."
Tawang is a must visit in Arunachal Pradesh! Indo-China border,
Indian Army, Holy Waterfall & more
Tawang in Arunachal Pradesh was always so high on my bucket list and I finally made it here last month! It has been such an incredible journey with the most fulfilling return to a state that I’ve been to 4 times already. And everybody has showered nothing but love on me. For which I’m extremely grateful! In today’s video, we are visiting Bumla Pass, Chakzam, Rice Bowl, Holy Waterfall and a few more local hot spots that are just so beautiful. Tawang feels like a natural marvel every step of the way and wherever you look. SO BEAUTIFUL!! At the same time, we are testing the power-packed AMD Ryzen-powered laptop to see if it stands the test of its battery life, speed and editing prowess.
China’s Railway Near Arunachal Border - Steps taken by India | International Relations UPSC
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Nov 17, 2020
China has started building a strategic railway line that will link Sichuan (sich-wahn) province with Nyingchi province in Tibet. As you can see it lies close to the Indian state of Arunachal Pradesh border. This video will also cover what counter steps India has taken against Chinese plans.