Posted on 07/30/2020 2:55:42 PM PDT by BenLurkin
The 255km (140-mile) Darbuk-Shyok-Daulat Beg Oldi (DSDBO) road - which winds through mountain passes up to the world's highest airstrip more than 5,000m above sea level in the Ladakh region - was finished last year after nearly two decades of work. Its completion could increase India's ability to move men and materiel rapidly in a conflict.
The 15 June clash, in Ladakh's Galwan Valley, gave rise to concerns that tensions between the two nuclear powers could boil over. They have never agreed on the exact position of their 3,500km border...
Both India and China have devoted money and manpower to building roads, rail links and airfields along the Line of Actual Control (LAC) - the de facto boundary separating them - as well as modernising their military hardware in the region.
India's recent building work, including the DSDBO road, appears to have infuriated China - but China has been busy building along the border for years. Both sides tend to view the other's construction efforts as calculated moves to gain tactical advantage, and tensions flare when either announces a major project.
In the summer of 2017, the neighbours were brought to a stand-off at Doklam plateau, far to the east of Ladakh. That confrontation was also over construction - this time China attempting to extend a border road near a tri-junction between India, China and Bhutan.
The completion of the DSDBO road, which connects the crucial Daulat Beg Oldi airstrip - put back in use in 2008 - to the regional capital Leh, has strengthened India's ability to move equipment quickly. The all-weather road lies about 20km from the Karakoram Pass and runs parallel to the LAC in eastern Ladakh.
Additional roads and bridges are now being built to link the road with inland supply bases and border outposts...
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Where do you guys put your money?
Does it matter? Seems like those two will be fighting over useless wasteland for the next thousand years, and the fight will never end.
China holds the losing hand. They’ve ticked off too many nations including Japan, India, the USA and others.
Current flooding will make a dent in their food supply.
The Belt and Road initiative has potholes that have created internal dissension.
India, a democracy will pass China population wise in the near future.
Trump is encouraging manufacturing to leave China.
China, Russia, Iran and the Democrats will know beyond a shadow of a doubt they’re screwed after Trump gets reelcted.
Russia is no fan of China. The Muslim world likewise. China is isolating itself.
Russia has Siberia-undeveloped. Wonder if the Chicoms have their eyes on it.
Oh, they do. They have an irredentist claim to the maritime province. They are busy elsewhere right now.
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