India, China begin 14th round of border talks
NEW DELHI, Aug 7,2009:
India and China begin their 14th round of discussions on the border dispute in Delhi on Friday and experts are warning that China is diluting its commitment on Sikkim as a part of India.
They say China's objections over the last year to India strengthening border defences in Sikkim were made with only that purpose in mind.
Professor, Centre for East, Srikanth Kondapalli said, "Overall I see there is a lot of local and military resistance for normalisatioan of relations between the two countries and the issue of finger point was raised by the local level Chinese military units in terms of their infrastructure and possibly it shows the discord in the decision making between the China's political and military leadership.”
The result is that India has now deployed armoured vehicles along the Sikkim Tibet border.
There's disquiet on other fronts and diplomatic sources confirmed Chinese border incursions are mounting in the Ladakh region covering Khurnak Fort, the Pangong Tso lake, Chumar and Demchok.
Chinese troops are again entering the Barahoti grazing grounds in Himachal Pradesh. All this backed up by hints that China is not keen on joint army exercises in December. There's been no movement on joint air force exercises. And growing suspicion that China's naval drills are only to reinforce its Indian Ocean footprint.
There are also concern over China's plans to dam the Yarlung Tsangpo river in Tibet which flows into India as the Brahmaputra.
source: sikkim express
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