India plans to add 35,000 troops along China border as tensions simmer

Bloomberg ^ | July 30 | Updated on July 30, 2020 | Bloomberg

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India is preparing to position an additional 35,000 troops along its disputed Himalayan border with China as the possibility of an early resolution to the deadly tensions between the two neighbours fades.

The move would change the status quo along the contested 3,488 km Line of Actual Control and stretch the nations already tight military budget, senior Indian officials said, asking not to be identified citing rules on speaking to the media.

Twenty Indian soldiers and unknown number of Chinese troops were killed in an ugly skirmish on June 15 and since then, both sides have rushed thousands of soldiers, artillery guns and tanks to the region. With India-China border agreements not holding, the situation required additional troops, the officials said.

“The nature of the Line of Control, at least in Ladakh, has changed forever,” said the director of Delhi-based The United Service Institution of India and retired major general, B K Sharma. “Additional troops rushed by either side will not move back, unless there is a rapprochement at the highest political level.”

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