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Face-Offs at India-China Border Are Continuing at Multiple Points, ITBP Chief Confirms

Since June, civil society groups and local media warned of PLA encroachments into Arunachal Pradesh. Hitherto, Delhi’s response was to deny and dismiss their claims.

Taksing, a border village in the Upper Subansiri district in Arunachal Pradesh.

Claims by civil society groups and media in India’s northeastern state of Arunachal Pradesh that Chinese troops have been crossing into Indian territory, which the Narendra Modi government has repeatedly denied, were confirmed by a top Indian official last week.

At an event in Alwar, Rajasthan, on October 22, Indo-Tibetan Border Police (ITBP) Director General Shatrujeet Kapur said that face-offs are happening between Indian and Chinese forces “at several locations in Arunachal and it still continues.”

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Claims by civil society groups and media in India’s northeastern state of Arunachal Pradesh that Chinese troops have been crossing into Indian territory, which the Narendra Modi government has repeatedly denied, were confirmed by a top Indian official last week.

At an event in Alwar, Rajasthan, on October 22, Indo-Tibetan Border Police (ITBP) Director General Shatrujeet Kapur said that face-offs are happening between Indian and Chinese forces “at several locations in Arunachal and it still continues.”

Kapur’s remarks on Thursday about the face-offs are hardly a revelation. Civil society groups and media in the northeast Indian state of Arunachal Pradesh, which borders China, have been drawing attention to the fragile, even alarming........

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