Bhutanin konflikti

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Henkilökohtaisesti uskon että kohta rytisee. Viime päivien uutiset ovat olleet sitä luokkaa, että siellä Kiinan päässä on joku kypsynyt ja konflikti on ruvennut kukkimaan.

Kannattaa seurata myös sitä, että mitä Intian laivasto puuhailee Malakan salmen lähellä ja sitä kuinka etelään Kiinan laivasto pyrkii.

Kiinan salamitaktiikka on toiminut kauan - etenkin merillä. Nyt Intia pistää sille vastaan ja kailottaa sitä koko maailmalle.

Tossa käydään vääntöä Aasian tärkeimpien vesivarojen tulevasta hallinnasta. Kiinassa on laskettu paljon veden ja patojen varaan.

Intian sitkeys ja peräänantamattomuus on kiehtovaa seurattavaa.

 

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China’s military has said it hopes India will honour its pledge to swiftly return a Chinese soldier, found lost along their mountainous and contested border zone, where both militaries have been locked in a tense standoff for decades.

India said on Monday that the soldier, Corporal Wang Ya Long, had been apprehended inside Indian-controlled Ladakh’s Demchok area and was to be released soon.

It said the soldier “had strayed” across the de facto border along the eastern section of what is known as the Line of Actual Control, a loose demarcation separating Indian- and Chinese-controlled areas.

Chinese soldier detained by India after straying across border

Beijing urges India to fulfil promise to return corporal who it says got lost in disputed mountainous region after helping herd yaks

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Chinese soldier detained by India after straying across border

Beijing urges India to fulfil promise to return corporal who it says got lost in disputed mountainous region after helping herd yaks

www.theguardian.com

Kuinka moni uskoo, että tuo ukko on "eksynyt" tai "korpraali"?

 

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"eksynyt"

Mietin sitä itsekkin mutta en tiedä seutua taikka olosuhteita. Silti luulisi ukon tienneen tasan tarkkaan missä haahuili.

 

[SJ]

Mietin sitä itsekkin mutta en tiedä seutua taikka olosuhteita. Silti luulisi ukon tienneen tasan tarkkaan missä haahuili.

Toki on mahdollista että kyseessä on mitä ukko väittää olevansa, mutta itse pitäisin tuota melkoisella varmuudella tarkoituksellinen provo tai tiedustelu yritys.

 

[Pihatonttu]

Kuinka moni uskoo, että tuo ukko on "eksynyt" tai "korpraali"?

En usko, että kummankaan puolen soltut liikkuvat tuolla yksin, kaksin tai muuten erittäin pienissä ryhmissä elleivät ole tiedustelemassa.

En usko, että kumpikaan puoli ottaa vapaaehtoisesti sitä riskiä, että yksittäinen harhailija jää vastapuolen saaliiksi.

 

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En usko, että kummankaan puolen soltut liikkuvat tuolla yksin, kaksin tai muuten erittäin pienissä ryhmissä elleivät ole tiedustelemassa.

En usko, että kumpikaan puoli ottaa vapaaehtoisesti sitä riskiä, että yksittäinen harhailija jää vastapuolen saaliiksi.

Sitten on vielä se loikkaus mahdollisuus, mutta olettaisi tuon pyytäneen turvapaikkaa tms.

 

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[Teräsmies]

Kiinalaiset ovat raahanneet runsaasti tykistöä alueelle.

 

[StepanRudanskij]

Tämäkin liittyy. Rajapyykkejä siirrellään vahvemman oikeudella.

'Our land has been captured': Villagers attest to Chinese annexation of Nepalese territory

China's annexation of 150 hectares of Nepal - dismissed by the Foreign Ministry in Beijing as "rumours" - has been corroborated by fresh testimony from Nepalese villagers. On Monday, The Daily Telegraph revealed that members of the Chinese People’s Liberation Army (PLA) had seized land in five...

www.yahoo.com

 

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The head of the Tibetan government in exile has visited the White House for the first time in six decades, a move that could further infuriate China, which has accused the US of trying to destabilise the region.

Lobsang Sangay, the President of the Central Tibetan administration (CTA), was invited to Washington to meet officials on Friday, the CTA said. “This unprecedented meeting perhaps will set an optimistic tone for CTA participation with US officials and be more formalised in the coming years,” said the CTA, which is based in India’s Dharamshala.

Tibet is one of a range of areas of dispute between the US and China, with relations between the world’s two biggest economies at their lowest point in decades.

Head of Tibet government-in-exile visits White House for first time in six decades

The visit by Lobsang Sangay, president of the Central Tibetan administration, could further infuriate Beijing

www.theguardian.com

 

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Sikkim is an Indian state sandwiched between Bhutan and Nepal, about 2,500km (1,500 miles) east of the Ladakh area.
A Chinese patrol tried to enter Indian territory and was forced back, the officials said.
An Indian army statement played down the incident, saying there "was a minor face-off at Naku La area of North Sikkim on 20 January 2021 and the same was resolved by local commanders as per established protocols".
One source told the Times of India that both sides brought in reinforcements after a "brawl" but there was no gunfire and the situation was under control.
China's foreign ministry spokesman Zhao Lijian did not give details of the incident, but said China's troops were "committed to upholding peace" and urged India to "refrain from actions that might escalate or complicate the situation along the border".
The editor-in-chief of China's state-affiliated Global Times tweeted there was "no record of this clash in the patrol log of the Chinese side".

Sikkim: Chinese and Indian troops 'in new border clash'

A number were hurt in the incident several days ago at Naku La in Sikkim, Indian media say.

www.bbc.com

 

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China and India have been pulling back frontline troops along disputed portions of their mountain border where they have been in a standoff for months, officials in both countries said.

The troops started the disengagement on Wednesday at the southern and northern bank of Pangong Lake in the Ladakh region, according to the officials.

India and China would remove forward deployments in a “phased, coordinated and verified manner”, the Indian defence minister, Rajnath Singh, told parliament on Thursday.

China’s defence ministry said in a statement on Wednesday that both sides had started a “synchronised and organised” disengagement.

Armies of China and India pull back from hand-to-hand border battle zone

Both countries say they are disengaging in disputed Ladakh where soldiers killed each other with sticks and rocks

www.theguardian.com

 

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Chinese authorities have arrested at least six people, and is targeting a teenager living overseas, for posting online about Chinese soldiers killed in a border clash last year.

Last week the Chinese government bestowed posthumous honours on four soldiers who died after the Galwan valley clash with Indian forces, in the disputed Himalayan border regions.

The men were detained under a 2018 law which makes it illegal to defame “heroes and martyrs” in China. An amendment set to take effect this month brings potential penalties of three years in jail. Another man who police said had lived overseas since July 2019, was “pursued online” over comments he made about the soldiers, “on suspicion of causing trouble on the internet”.

In a statement police in Chongqing city said the 19-year-old man, surnamed Wang and posting on Weibo as @tscb8, had “slandered and belittled the heroes” with his comments, “causing negative social impact”.

“Heroes and martyrs are not allowed to be desecrated. Cyberspace is not outside the law,” it said.

China arrests six for 'causing negative social impact' online over India border clashes

The men – plus one teenager living overseas – were targeted for allegedly posting ‘defamatory’ material about soldiers who died in clashes last year

www.theguardian.com

 

[magitsu]

Hivuttautuminen onnistuu näemmä muuallakin kuin merialueilla.

Kiinan lippu nousi vuorille Bhutanin puolelle – Kiina on rakentanut kyliään kuningaskuntaan ilman, että muu maailma on huomannut mitään

Foreign policy -lehden selvityksen mukaan Kiina on vuodesta 2015 lähtien pystyttänyt Bhutanin pohjoisosaan kyliä ja omia tukikohtiaan. Toinen kyläryhmä rakentui viime vuonna Bhutanin länsiosaan. Maarajojen venyttämistä on verrattu Etelä-Kiinan meren aluevaatimuksiin.

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Hivuttautuminen onnistuu näemmä muuallakin kuin merialueilla.

Kiinan lippu nousi vuorille Bhutanin puolelle – Kiina on rakentanut kyliään kuningaskuntaan ilman, että muu maailma on huomannut mitään

Foreign policy -lehden selvityksen mukaan Kiina on vuodesta 2015 lähtien pystyttänyt Bhutanin pohjoisosaan kyliä ja omia tukikohtiaan. Toinen kyläryhmä rakentui viime vuonna Bhutanin länsiosaan. Maarajojen venyttämistä on verrattu Etelä-Kiinan meren aluevaatimuksiin.

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Bhutan, Myanmar, Intian suhteen yrittänyt ja saanut näpeilleen...

Kiinan laajenemishinku on uhka koko maapallon vakaudelle ja turvallisuudelle. Länsimaiden on aika tiivistää yhteistyötään niin talouden kuin militaarimittelyidenkin näkökulmasta.

 

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A Chinese court has jailed a popular blogger over posts suggesting the death toll among Chinese soldiers in a China-Indian border clash last year was higher than claimed.

Qiu Ziming was among at least six people arrested in February for online posts about the Galwan Valley clash between Chinese and Indian troops in a disputed border area. A tense standoff that began in May escalated to shouting matches, stone-throwing and fistfights, before culminating on 15 June into a violent bout of hand-to-hand combat with clubs and stones, leaving dozens dead.

Indian authorities said at least 20 soldiers died, but China did not officially confirm any deaths from its side until the bestowing of posthumous honours on four soldiers in February.

Qiu, who had more than 2.5 million followers on Weibo, had suggested in blogposts that the actual count might be higher than the official tally, and that a commanding officer survived “because he was the highest-ranking officer there” – a comment that irked officia

China jails blogger who 'slandered' dead in India border clash

Qiu Ziming imprisoned under 2018 law outlawing defamation of ‘heroes and martyrs’

www.theguardian.com

 

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China's bewilderingly quick construction of airfields atop man-made islands in the South China Sea, as well as its extra-territorial claims over that body of water, have grabbed headlines for years and the issue remains one of the most significant strategic and geopolitical problems of our time. Yet another far less discussed, but similar strategic expansion is underway in the western reaches of the Chinese mainland, which has gotten much less attention, yet it isn't all that less concerning. Beijing's remarkable blitz on airfield and other military-related construction in this remote region coincides with escalating tensions with its neighbor, India.

Just a year ago to the day, a clash along the Line Of Actual Control in the Galwan Valley between Chinese and Indian troops ended with dozens dead. While it was one of a long list of violent clashes over the years along various disputed portions of the border between the two countries, many saw this particular incident as a strategic turning point for both sides, but especially for the ever more powerful China.

Fast forward a year, and China's heavy investment in airpower-related facilities in the region is already being leveraged by the Chinese People's Liberation Army Air Force (PLAAF), as evidenced by an unprecedented level of activity along the Sino-Indian border as of late. This is in addition to massive growth in ground-based air defenses, as well as the construction of new fortifications, heliports, and rail lines into the area. As such, there is more going on here than just some defensive upgrades and the strategic implications are potentially severe.

Tracking China's Sudden Airpower Expansion On Its Western Border

Satellite images raise concerns over Beijing's incredible pace of expansion of its airpower infrastructure along its western flank.

www.thedrive.com

 

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Over the past few months, India has moved troops and fighter jet squadrons to three distinct areas along its border with China, according to four people familiar with the matter. All in all, India now has roughly 200,000 troops focused on the border, two of them said, which is an increase of more than 40% from last year.

Both the Indian Army and a spokesman for the Prime Minister’s Office in New Delhi didn’t respond to requests for comment.

Whereas previously India’s military presence was aimed at blocking Chinese moves, the redeployment will allow Indian commanders more options to attack and seize territory in China if necessary in a strategy known as “offensive defense,” one of the people said. That includes a lighter footprint involving more helicopters to airlift soldiers from valley to valley along with artillery pieces like the M777 howitzer built by BAE Systems Inc.

While it’s unclear how many troops China has on the border, India detected that the People’s Liberation Army recently moved additional forces from Tibet to the Xinjiang Military Command, which is responsible for patrolling disputed areas along the Himalayas.

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It was described as a dialogue, the first high-level meeting in months between the Indian and Chinese foreign ministers to address the ongoing border aggressions that have pushed the two nuclear-armed countries to the brink of war.

But those hoping Wednesday’s meeting would help break a year-long stalemate during which 200,000 troops have built up on both sides of the Himalayan frontier were to be left unsatisfied.

There was one point of agreement, however. As Wang Yi, the Chinese foreign minister, noted, “relations between India and China are still at a low point”.

Tensions remain high as hopes dashed for breakthrough in China and India stalemate

Military build-up continues ‘like never before’ on both sides of 2,100-mile border despite high-level talks

www.theguardian.com

“Every month there are two to three face-offs in these areas,” said another army officer posted in the area, the information corroborated by local police and intelligence officers.

“To avoid further escalations we started fencing some areas around Galwan but Chinese objected to it and we had to remove it,” said another officer.

Voiko olla että Kiina haluaa lohkaista itseelleen niin Bhutanin alueen kuin A-maan? Se on ominut itselleen tiibetin ja jos a-maan mineraali rikkauksia seuraa, niin voiko olla mahdollista että myös Khasmirin alueella olisi noita?