China keeps threatening their actual most well-positioned rival, they shouldn’t be surprised if India starts reacting poorly. Especially given Modi’s nationalist leanings.
The recent Maldives thing really drives it home that China isn’t looking for friends, they’re looking for tools for naval basing and power projection.
The same can be said of the US. But at least they are still a democracy. But for how long?
We may not be that much better in every way, but we’re much farther away and we don’t want a fight with India, which is a strong country.
War is never a good thing, no matter the opponent’s relative strength. Unfortunately the human ego is often too strong to accept compromises…
Not that it’s anything new, but it’s crazy that 2 ICBM-armed states have a massive border standoff.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
The facility appeared to be equipped with dedicated solar arrays to ensure a sustained power supply, photographs from Sinergise’s Sentinel Hub website showed.
China and India have been locked in an escalated military standoff for nearly four years since a deadly border clash in the summer of 2020, itself a result of their decades-long unsettled Himalayan boundary.
The buildup of military infrastructure is thought to be part of the People’s Liberation Army’s broader strategy of enhancing its intelligence gathering and electronic warfare capabilities, with both forces deployed in the mountainous regions throughout the year.
The regiment had a similar setup to Russia’s reconnaissance and fire system, suggesting that the Chinese military units would likely provide support to artillery and air defense brigades within the PLA Ground Force.
The new radome, first captured by satellites in late 2021, sits atop a mountain peak north of Lake Mansarovar and houses high-frequency towers and at least one support building, with the groundwork for other structures already underway.
The CSIS report speculated that the radome could serve signals intelligence collection and satellite communications, supplementing another existing facility by Pangong Tso Lake on the disputed border, near the valley where Chinese and Indian soldiers fought in 2020.
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