(TibetanReview.net, Oct29’26) – Rejecting allegations that erratic patrolling by its Tibet-border troops had led to faceoffs with their Indian counterparts in Arunachal Pradesh, China on Oct 26 sought to put the onus on India for maintaining peace along the disputed boundary between the two sides.
Earlier, on Oct 23, India’s External Affair Ministry spokesperson Randhir Jaiswal said at his weekly news conference, “As we have noted in the past, the situation in the India-China border areas gets disturbed from time to time when Chinese forces diverge from established patrolling patterns.”
Jaiswal’s remarks followed comments by Indo-Tibetan Border Police (ITBP) Director General Shatrujeet Singh Kapur that faceoffs between Indian and Chinese troops were continuing at multiple locations along the border in the northeastern state of Arunachal Pradesh, despite ongoing talks between the two countries.
The confrontations began in July and were continuing, Kapur had said. In one such incident, both sides initially withdrew. However, a few days later, Chinese troops returned in larger numbers and pitched tents “around six-to-seven kilometres inside India’s perception of the Line of Actual Control (LAC)”.
However, China flatly rejected all such allegations. “China has consistently and strictly abided by the relevant agreements and important understandings between the two countries, conducting routine patrols and management activities in the border areas to safeguard territorial sovereignty and border stability,” the official globatimes.cn Oct 26 quoted Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Guo Jiakun as saying.
“China hopes India will work in the same direction to jointly implement the understandings reached by both sides and take concrete steps to maintain peace and tranquillity in the border areas,” Guo has further said.
Arunachal Pradesh’s Asaphila and Longju remain sensitive amid differing India-China perceptions of the LAC, said indiatoday.in Oct 24.
There have also been earlier allegations that the Chinese PLA had made an aggressive move and blocked the Indian Army’s access to the Shera 5 patrolling point in Taksing, near the LAC in the Upper Subansiri district in 2023., noted deccanherald.com Oct 27.
On Jun 26, the Nah Welfare Society (NWS), an organisation representing the local community, submitted a memorandum to the district’s deputy commissioner, alleging that the PLA had built roads, bridges and military camps at five locations: Oying in Asaphila, Paniar, Marpan, Potrang Lake and Tindingtang. But New Delhi played down the allegations, the report noted.
The overall situation on the ground is stable and under control, the indiatoday.in report cited defence sources as saying.
There have been no reports of violent clashes between military personnel from the two sides, the sources have said, adding that ground commanders were maintaining restraint and operational control.