China is a South Asian country, sharing borders with 14 countries including India. Its significance lies in its rise in the region and hegemonic influence over smaller countries through loans and the Belt and Road Initiative. China and India have fought a major war in the 60s and have disputes over the Aksai Chin and LAC, and tensions over the Indo-Pacific.
Compare the quality of these roads, to the Chinese-built ones across the border…chances are, the ones constructed across the border are way superior
Wondering how much of those were built in last 5 years? 20 years is a very long time frame to gauge the failure of previous govts and also diluted the hard work of last 5 years which actually saw the real progress.
Great for country and connectivity to the northern frontier especially given the security, stability,peace and prosperity to these regions maintaining better surveillance,availability and resources for army personnel and common Indians.
Namaskar. A very humble, but urgent request, to the China Study Group, as well as to Smt. Ananya Bhardwaj, to seriously consider the issue of food supplies, the subject of provisioning logistics of the Northern Armed forces, sensu lato, from Arunachal Pradesh to Siachen, including the highest altitudes year round.
This included the ancillary support system, the goodwill of the local village communities, especially in sensitive areas, such as near the Kargil-Dras area or Arunachal Pradesh. Not enough attention is paid to these crucial links in the chain. A chain is ONLY as strong as each of its links. For example, the tiny herding community that claims to have FIRST SIGHTED the Pakistani intrusion into Indian territory, remains deeply disaffected. It is but 4-5 households, perched on a cliff, with numerous citations to show but NO MATERIAL HELP WHATSOEVER EVEN 20 YEARS after the Kargil war. Very foolish, don’t you suppose, when a very little could have won a huge amount of goodwill?
Ditto, in Arunachal, the defence roads org. blasted a shrine of Holy Guru Rinpoche ot make way for a road. Would they have blasted a masjid with impunity? Please try to understand what sacrilege has happened. Go back, accept fault, restore a chapel + build a gonkhang where 24 hr path is held. Get some specialists in each sect/subsect of Nyingmapa/Sarmapa Vajrayana as part of the Army, and conversant with EACH major LOCALITY, native to the area.
Back to High Altitude agriculture, horticulture and animal husbandry. DRDO had a woeful subsection, manned decades past by Elie Tsering and one Brahm Prakash, and utterly nonsensical. That nonsense today is continued under CAZRI, and every other govt. organization, filled with incompetents. Please, we cannot afford to contest with China, that has NO ROOM FOR CLOWNS where its power is concerned, where we are enamoured of the Krishna Menon-Nehruvian circus of fools to this day.
You have not a single expert familiar with intensive fruit/veg. cultivation without cover in USDA HARDINESS ZONES 2, & 3 [ perhaps even 4?, -45 to -30 C winter lows, and short, cold summers of <90 growing days. China does.
You airlift fresh food from the plains to Thoiche, for forward bases. Have you examined the diets at Siachen? At forwards bases? Please get real; also, serious. The Chinese ARE. We remain Krishna Menon's ulloos. I can prove this.
NO logistics experts, no understanding of principles of thermodynamics throughout the provisioning of the Northern Forces in an integrated manner, considering the TOTAL TEETH: TAIL issue.
What about shelter & drainage at High Altitudes? Again, LACUNAE instead of COMPETENCE. Please talk to those who wish to help without taking anything in return.