“That we are looking at a second winter engaged at the border explains why India needs to work on building its capabilities and infrastructure at the border and source more equipment from partners like the U.S.,” she said.Īdding to the friction is a new Chinese boundary law that Beijing said was a “unified standard for strengthening border management.” India warned that the new law, passed last week, could affect ongoing border tensions, which China’s Foreign Ministry spokesman Wang Wenbin said was “undue speculation.”
India’s deployments show a frustration with the lack of progress on talks with China, said Rajeswari Pillai Rajagopalan, director of the Centre for Security, Strategy and Technology at the Observer Research Foundation in New Delhi. While the two sides have engaged in talks to disengage, they have yet to agree on pulling back from a key flashpoint in another border area near the disputed area of Kashmir.Īn Indian Army truck drives along a road to Tawang near the Sela Pass. India has moved to bolster its defenses along the border with China after the worst fighting in decades last year led to the deaths of at least 20 Indian army personnel and four Chinese soldiers. “All units including combat and combat support units are fully raised and equipped.” “The Mountain Strike Corps is fully operationalized,” he said.
Manoj Pande, commander of the Indian Army’s Eastern Command, said that boots, armor, artillery and air support were being combined to make the force “agile, lean and mean so that we can employ faster. Indian military personnel escorted a group of reporters through the region last week to highlight the country’s new offensive capabilities. and India have strengthened due to rising concerns about Chinese assertiveness. The weapons have all been acquired in the past few years as defense ties between the U.S.
Now U.S.-manufactured Chinook helicopters, ultralight towed howitzers and rifles as well as domestically made supersonic cruise missiles and a cutting-edge surveillance system will back Indian troops in areas bordering eastern Tibet.
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