2013-10-04 — Dismissing the recent reports of 640 sq km incursion in Ladakh by Chinese People’s Liberation Army (PLA), Nepal’s chief of army staff Gaurav Shumsher Jang Bahadur Rana on Thursday said China cannot afford to enter India even as he sought to stick to his country’s non-alignment policy for not offering military support to either country in case of a war.
“China is too pre-occupied with the Tibetan issue. And, then there is Xinjiang region facing the separatist movement. The PLA cannot afford to enter India, or for that matter Nepal. Whether it’s the mighty Himalayas or the Indo-Gangetic plains, they have no reasons to make incursions into India. There are no provocations,” Rana told TOI in an exclusive interview in Chandigarh.
Rana held the alleged incursion of the Red Army into Indian territory in Arunachal Pradesh and Ladakh as a common occurrence. “In all military agreements, there are problems when you draw lines of control on maps using a pen. Whenever there is a violation, either country then blames it on the thickness of the drawn line. So there are no signs of any concern for India,” he said.
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