Joe Shearer
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indian credibility has taken a serious hit in this episode.. its hard to take anything coming out of the indian government seriously anymore.
everything is now just blatantly deny plain facts... it becomes annoying and condescending at some point.
when this incident happened. I went quickly to see what both sides were saying. and virtually all indian sources were saying "fake news" "India took Chinese territory actually" and things like that. virtually every other source on earth is saying the opposite.
at some point you lose credibility. its impossible to take any indian statements as facts anymomre and impossible to know whats going on. and i say this as a relatively neutral observer.
If you have had the opportunity to examine the position on maps, you will find that both sides have gone to the extent of their claimed portions. You will also find, on searching, that India has significantly improved her infrastructure in the area, and in the Arunachal Pradesh area, and that some of the discomfort on the PLA side is due to the realisation that this has happened progressively, and without any attention having been paid for that.
As for the rest, if you truly want to get at the reality of the situation, a certain amount of ploughing through muck of the sort you have described is sadly necessary.
I am not sure what other sources on earth are saying something different, but it does not match ground reality. We do tend to take Chinese assertions at face value, but these have been hollowed out over time; they are not reliable.