NEW DELHI: The latest fracas between India and China due to border issues is no accident but "a planned move" by New Delhi to seize Chinese territory, a move that mounts the risk of escalating standoffs and conflicts between the two sides, an article in China’s Global Times has warned.
It has blamed India’s "illegally constructed defense facilities across the border into Chinese territory in the Galwan Valley region," for the tensions between the two countries that has seen both bring in reinforcements along their Line of Actual Control (LAC) in the western Ladakh sector.
Tensions have been running high between India and China, with both sides involved in physical skirmishes at several points across their 3,488 kilometre long LAC,