Joe Shearer
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You seem to know a lot about a lot of things. You are like the PDF encyclopedia. Any idea what's going on there ?
In point form:
- Happens every time the patrolling season starts (there is a period of cold weather when neither side stirs out).
- Happens every time there is a change of formation on either side of the LAC.
- The PLA and their BDRs used to roam about freely in the past. Rare encounters of patrols were handled very well by both sides.
- The PLA has from the outset concentrated on building communications. Both rail and road communications in Xijang/Tibet are superb. Vulnerable but superb. Their roads run right down to the frontier, or what is now called the lines of control.
- The Indian side had the totally regressive position that improving infrastructure on our side would play into the hands of the PLA, and they would find it easier to advance along well-made roads, so the entire hinterland to the control lines should be left unattended.
- This idiotic view was only corrected recently.
- Since then, essential communications - road links, for the present, although it is possible to go to Srinagar by train from near the Banihal Pass now - has been worked upon very hard by the BRO and possibly other agencies.
- As a result, contacts are far more frequent.
- With increased contact, there has been a deterioration in manners on both sides. There has been physical violence.
- The rules governing these areas of proximity have become very, very weak. Behaviour on both sides has become much coarser.
- There has been no occupation of territory under Indian control by the PLA GF.
- They have made no permanent structures - as yet.
I have a simple question, if everyone is in her own border. Then why all this fuss? Why Indians have scheduled high level meeting with Chinese. After all Indians have already pushed them back. So, whats whe point.
Increased proximity, increased temporary infrastructure, increased contact and conflict when patrols meet each other and an unsettling tendency on both sides to resort to physical violence.
Why there is lt. General level meeting?
Relations have been deteriorating. If you want, I can send you a video of an interview of General Hooda, that is useful (or you can get it on your own; search on YouTube for Lt. Gen. D. S. Hooda. Hooda was always a quiet, discreet man who handled some very difficult situations while still in service.