On Tuesday, the Economic Times reported an alarming lapse in India’s security apparatus. On August 30, the paper said, 100 soldiers from ...
On Tuesday, the Economic Times reported an alarming lapse in India’s security apparatus. On August 30, the paper said, 100 soldiers from China’s People’s Liberation Army crossed the Indo-China border and entered the Indian state of Uttarakhand. The contingent entered 5km into Indian territory and even managed to damage a bridge.
Even though Chinese troops were in Indian territory for three hours, they were not challenged by the Indian security forces. In the end, the soldiers crossed back into China unhampered.
By any standard, enemy troops entering a country’s territory and attacking infrastructure is a dangerous state of affairs. More so when it came after only a year after 20 Indian soldiers died in border clashes with the People’s Liberation Army in Galwan, Ladakh. This was one part of a series of aggressive moves by the Chinese across the length of the Indo-Chinese border.
As defence analyst Sushant Singh reported, Chinese control of the Depsang plains that resulted from this wave of conflict was a major jolt to Indian defence.
Teflon Modi
In the course of normal democratic politics, these continued Chinese intrusions should have had a significant impact on politics and the media. Paradoxically, however, there was little of the sort. The August 30 intrusion, for example, remained a minor story in...
