Brazen China enters India, spends 3 days

THURESDAY 
 22.8.13
A day after India landed a military aircraft close to the China border in the north in a “show of muscle”, reports on Wednesday said Chinese soldiers not only came deep into the Indian side in the Northeast last week but also stayed on for three days.



The ministry of external affairs (MEA) downplayed the incursion in Arunachal Pradesh’s Chaglagam area, calling it a “non-event” based on army inputs.
Army sources, however, privately confirmed that a “longrange Chinese patrol” comprising 20-30 soldiers had crossed the line of actual control (LAC) and camped 20-30km inside Indian territory for three days. The news came in as army officers of both sides were meeting in Kolkata to draw plans for a joint exercise.

PRATIMA KUMARI 
 PGDM