Posted on 10/01/2021 8:39:17 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
NEW DELHI—One hundred PLA soldiers and 55 horses intruded three miles into the Indian territory in the Barahoti region of the Himalayan state of Uttarakhand on Aug. 30 and returned after destroying some infrastructure including a bridge, according to the latest Indian media reports.
Experts said the timing of the incident is of significance as it conveys to the Indians the Chinese regime’s serious intent. It’s also thought to be connected with the new PLA leadership, which specializes in patrolling and reconnaissance missions in mountainous terrain. The incursion might have been designed by them to please Chinese leader Xi Jinping.
“What adds an element of concern to this complex situation is the timing of it. Since the intrusion was large reportedly, with as many as 100 Chinese soldiers, it means that the Chinese side wishes to underline the seriousness of its intent,” Rajiv Dogra, a former senior Indian diplomat, told The Epoch Times by email.
The incident at the mountain crossing Tun Jun La Pass went unnoticed by the Indian military initially and didn’t lead to a faceoff, reported the Mumbai-based The Economic Times, which quoted insiders in the Indian defense establishment.
It was reported by locals to the Indian army, which sent a patrol to verify. By then the Chinese had left after spending about three hours.
“Earlier also several attempts were made by PLA to infiltrate the Barahoti area. Additional troops have been deployed in the central sector now,” an anonymous source in the Indian Home Ministry told The Economic Times.
The scale of the incident has led to concerns in the Indian establishment. Minor intrusions have happened at Barahoti before including the last one in July, but it has remained largely demilitarized.
Barahoti was the first area in the Himalayas that saw a Chinese intrusion in 1954.
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Boy, they’re just poking random bears, aren’t they?
Egad!
China best be careful of picking fights with countries they don’t think have the nerve to stand up to them.
India has maintained a push back against Pakistan for quite a while. They didn’t do this by kneeling and smiling.
India may have very different ROA compared to countries such as the USA.
This Xi guy is even more deranged than Biden.
Also, am I the only guy who noticed that the COVID Delta Variant started in India?
If the Chinese can create COVID Alpha, there is no reason to think they cannot create Delta, too.
Oh I don’t know that India won’t respond....it has in the past.
China appears to once again want to destabilize that region. Could be a distraction move.
China is arrogant and dangerous and one day, sooner than later, will defeat the United States.
There is no delta. There is no test for “delta”. Delta exists for one reason. To justify the abject failure of the vaccine.
If you said the vaccinated people because sick with regualr covid-19 then it would be obvious the vaccine had failed.
So they tested the virus found in India, and found the slightest variation that could be identified at the DNA level....and named it “delta”.
This is like pretending a California Spotted Owl is different from a Northern Spotted Owl. And like the owl, the different populations of the same animal are claimed to be different for POLITICAL reasons.
Their real estate is about to implode—destroying what a super majority of regular Chinese use as their version of a retirement fund—and they have rolling blackouts shutting down factories for 5 days out of the week.
They’re looking for any distraction they can.
Domestic things going wrong?
Create a distraction.
Got to get the populace to look away so cause a war.
Hell, China has folks to lose.
As long as so many Americans are happy to continue to send US Dollars to China, to keep buying things which are made in China.
I almost agree with you.
America really needs to stop buying EVERYTHING from China.
GOP is for China. Dems are for China.
The only person who was for America, was Trump!
India has nukes. This might get ugly fast if someone loses his senses.
How do you stop buying chinese crap when virtually everything is made there? Americans cut their own throat by buying the cheaper stuff until the American makers of quality merchandise went broke.
......this “incursion” by 100 Chinese Soldiers into India offers America and it’s woke western allies (Aussies and Brits primarily; EU is too far gone to matter) a chance to wake up and grab some sack and STOP organizing our armies, navies and Air Forces with sissies, over-weight/unfit personnel, purple haired women, pregnant women and so on.
Why? Because I guarantee you when it came time for some Indian General to select troops to march out and confront these Chinese soldiers that he hand selected the biggest, meanest, toughest, most physically fit soldiers he could get his hands on!
The Indians are going to end up kicking their azz if they keep this up.
Yikes!!
Yeah kind of like Rome did.
Custer?
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