By Zachary Keck
China’s People’s Liberation Army has “incrementally” occupied 640 km of Indian territory along the Line of Actual Control (LoAC) that demarches the Sino-Indo border, Indian media sources reported this week, citing a report by an official advisory body.
According to reports in the Hindustan Times and Headlines Today, Chinese military forces have gradually assumed control over an aggregate of 640 km across three sectors along the border in Depsang, Chumar and Pangong Tso. The media reports also said that after a PLA incursion into Indian territory on April 15, Indian forces have been prevented from patrolling the Depsang Bulge.
The media outlets based their stories on a report they had obtained by the National Security Advisory Board (NSAB), an official advisory board, which was submitted to the Prime Minister’s office on August 10 (Headlines Today said August 12). According to the Prime Minister’s office, the NSAB is “is a multi-disciplinary body comprising persons of eminence form outside Government with the principal function of providing long- term prognosis and analysis to the National Security Council and recommending solutions and policy options to the issues raised by them.
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