Annual Threat Assessment of US Intelligence Community has stated that military postures between India and China has the potential to escalate swiftly. Continuous friction at the Line of Actual Control (LAC) between two nuclear armed Asian giants has led to mass mobilization of troops from both sides, who are standing and gazing each other at eyeball to eyeball confrontational mode.
Expanded military postures by both India and China at LAC elevates risk of armed confrontation
The report states,
“The expanded military postures by both India and China along the disputed border elevate the risk of armed confrontation between two nuclear powers that might involve direct threats to US persons and interests and calls for US intervention,”
Indian and Chinese relations has remained strained due to lethal Galwan clashes in 2020, the most serious in decades, in which there were casulaties on both sides, even though both sides have been engaged in talks.
Intelligence report comes in wake of assertion by India’s External Affairs Minister S.Jaishankar to his Chinese counterpart that India China relation is “abnormal”. India has repeatedly stated that ties with China cannot be normal unless there is peace in the border areas. Infact Jaishankar had his first livein meeting with Qin Gang on the sidelines of the G 20 foreign ministers conclave on March 2, amid over 34 month long border row in eastern Ladakh.
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