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Chinese intrusions declined by 10% this year, says official
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- There was enhanced cooperation along the China border and many incidents were not being reported -There has been a 10% decline in the number of Chinese transgressions this year.
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- The presence of Chinese troops along the Line of Actual Control (LAC) has also reduced by around 30%.
- The manpower has been substituted with powerful surveillance equipment.
- Along the Ladakh border in Jammu and Kashmir, India sticks mostly to a boundary drawn by British civil servant W.H. Johnson in 1865, which showed Aksai Chin as part of Jammu and Kashmir.
- China disputes this claim and in the 1950s built a road connecting Xinjiang and Tibet which ran through Aksai Chin. In the northeast of India, New Delhi sticks to the McMahon Line, as agreed by British representatives and Tibet at Simla in 1914.
- China claims that Tibet is not a sovereign nation and the McMahon Line has no legal standing. It stakes claim to the entire Arunachal Pradesh as part of Tibet.
- The Middle Sector along Himachal Pradesh and Uttarakhand is almost settled, with both sides not differing much in perception.
Source
The Hindu