Key Points
The Sela Tunnel, inaugurated by Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi earlier this month, has been hailed in India as a feat of engineering blasted through the Himalayas at an elevation of some 13,000 feet (3,900 meters) and a boon for the military, enabling faster, all-weather access to a tense de facto border with China.. . Thats caught the attention of Beijing, whose long-running dispute with New Delhi over their contested 2,100-mile (3,379-kilometer) borderhas seen the two nuclear-armed powers clash in recent years.. ..
We require the Indian side to cease any action that may complicate the boundary question the Chinese military remains highly vigilant and will resolutely defend national sovereignty and territorial integrity, a Defense Ministry spokesperson said last week, using the Chinese name Zangnan or South Tibet to refer to Arunachal Pradesh.. . India hit back on Tuesday, slamming Beijings absurd claims and saying the area is and will always be an integral and inalienable part of India.. ..
The US State Department also weighed in during a news conference Wednesday backing Indias sovereignty over Arunachal Pradesh and voicing strong opposition to any unilateral attempts to advance territorial claims by incursions or encroachments across the line of actual control (LAC), or de facto border.. . . Beijing hit back at this too, accusing Washington of sparing no efforts to provoke and take advantage of other countries conflicts to serve its selfish geopolitical interests.. ..
The spat which underscores the deep tensions undergirding the relationship between Asias two largest countries comes as India is weeks away from national elections expected to deliver a resounding endorsement of Modis Hindu nationalist platform.. . Rising nationalism under Modi has come alongside a similar phenomenon in China, where leader Xi Jinping has overseen an assertiveforeign policy though both sides have appeared to take steps to cool border tensions following the deadly 2020 clash.. . Modi on Friday also traveled to Bhutan for a trip aimed at further cementing the India-Bhutan partnership, he wrote on social media platform X..
Of 118 projects launched by Indias Border Roads Organization last year to build infrastructure like roads, bridges and airfields, more than half were in Arunachal Pradesh and Ladakh, along the disputed border with China.. . Beijing has accused India of complicating the boundary question and disrupting the situation in the border areas between the two countries with such development.. ..
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