India keeps mum on Chinese border incursions
New Delhi: A day after Chinese border violations were reported one and half kilometres inside Ladakh New Delhi remains unwilling to take on the Chinese provocations.
Meanwhile, China conducted its biggest ever military exercise involving four military commands and 50,000 troops. The troops could also spearhead any future Chinese attack on Ladakh and the signals are ominous.
Ladakh has seen a steep rise in Chinese troop intrusions right from Trig Heights, Chumar, Pangong Tso Lake, Spanggur Gap to Demchok.
Chinese army patrols have also been seen making frequent visits in Arunachal Pradesh’s Tawang. Upper Subansiri and Walong.
The mystery is that while intrusions are well documented and sometimes happen practically every day in a month India betrays a strange lack of action.
** While any cross border firing by Pakistan merits a strong reaction from India but when it comes to China it seems the asymmetry in size and power paralyses South Block rendering it unable or unwilling to develop a strong yet measured response to Beijing’s provocations. ** 