Media: India increased number of military personnel guarding border with China by 10,000
Bloomberg reported that India increased the number of its troops on the border with China by 10,000 soldiers, TASS reports
It is noted that India took this step in order to strengthen the protection of its border in the area of the territorial dispute with Beijing. It is reported that military personnel have already been sent to the north of India. They will join the military contingent of 9,000 Indian soldiers already stationed there. The military will have to guard a 532km stretch of border that separates China’s Tibet region with India’s northern states of Uttarakhand and Himachal Pradesh.
According to Bloomberg, ‘the unprecedented assignment of troops to this stretch of the border highlights both the region’s strategic importance and its growing sensitivity in the eyes of India’s leaders’.
