The South India Times
(MS Shanker)
Yet another skirmish between Indian and Chinese troops at Tawang in Arunachal Pradesh on December 9, kicked up an interesting political storm, that too when the winter session of parliament was underway. This is the third attempt by China’s People’s Liberation Army (PLA) to violate the international border agreement between the two nations after the 1962 and 1967 wars. Earlier two attempts that the PLA attempts on LoAC were at Doklam and Galwan.
Interestingly, on all three occasions, the ‘expansionist’ (as Prime Minister Narendra Modi, as quite often describes) China, has got a bloody nose. Being the biggest democracy in the world, India has no other option but to disclose the actual figure of casualties of our men, while a dictatorial Communist Party-led government in China headed by Xi Jinping has no accountability to reveal to its people, leave alone the rest of the world.
However, the international satellites could capture and the US and Russian intelligence agencies could confirm more casualties on the Chinese side than on the Indian side in which 20 people lost their lives. Though the area demarcated for both the country’s armies not to use weapons, the ‘rogue’ PLA did use claws and other sharp weapons against its bare-handed counterparts.As expected, the Indian Opposition, especially the Indian National Congress (INC) and the ‘faceless’ Leftist parties continue to hold brief for China, whenever such tensions prevail on Indo-China borders.
