{"id":34011,"date":"2022-12-14T01:37:20","date_gmt":"2022-12-13T20:07:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=34011"},"modified":"2025-04-20T08:07:10","modified_gmt":"2025-04-20T02:37:10","slug":"india-china-clash-in-tawang-sector","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/india-china-clash-in-tawang-sector\/","title":{"rendered":"India China clash in Tawang sector"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><strong>What\u2019s in today\u2019s article?<\/strong><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Why in News?<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>News Summary<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2><strong>Why in News?<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Yangtse in the Tawang sector of Arunachal Pradesh has been repeatedly targeted by Chinese PLA troops, seeking to dislodge Indian troops from vantage points.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2><strong>News Summary<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>In October 2021, the Chinese came to Yangtse in sizeable strength, close to 100 troops, and were confronted by an Indian patrolling unit.<\/li>\n<li>Recently, on December 9, army troops of both the countries again clashed in this region.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/lh6.googleusercontent.com\/HQTGkpSv-8tTCkRPwP_0Aq6xc1bsx0aQ33MvS2PQ1ucdAT796OcFulkkpPbMGRygiHxTUDEH7241hjthLz5-q-jn6yUETHo9_5VpNRyjpfj1Ji5FliiBk7Mq0VFZdUYN1L4NnFt7AisYQo8XbXrf-Q\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Image Caption: Tawang on map<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3><strong>Tawang Sector: A contested area<\/strong><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Soldiers of the two sides clashed in an area called Yangtse, in the upper reaches of Tawang sector in Arunachal Pradesh.<\/li>\n<li><u>Tawang, indeed nearly all of Arunachal, is claimed by China<\/u>.\n<ul>\n<li>It is one of the more serious dispute points between India and China in the overall border question.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Within Tawang, there are <u>three agreed areas of differing Indian and Chinese perceptions of the LAC<\/u>.\n<ul>\n<li>A majority of these areas \u2013 Yangtse included \u2013 were identified by the two sides during multiple meetings. This includes:\n<ul>\n<li>Joint Working Group (JWG) in the 1990s,<\/li>\n<li>during exchange of maps for the Middle Sector in 2000, and<\/li>\n<li>comparison of maps for the Western Sector in 2002.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>The remaining contested areas were identified over a period of time due to PLA actions.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/lh4.googleusercontent.com\/86U3Qk8ILplKtYHabe_bu4qCv01GtaK33riG_hHZhMKlwlPNdU8-d_0NAViVSmrvXht1gJwjFVwC14ILywF43hxZDCQ-52ksFkguVtfzbXMuK8As3oSpmjv1IjbewKcQLBgDtRYEhPKs23PxPDSOnA\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Image Caption: Areas of dispute between India and China<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3><strong>Current situation in Tawang<\/strong><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>The Tawang sector is dominated by Indian troops who can spot Chinese patrols when they come forward.<\/li>\n<li>Every time movement is noticed, Indian troops move for a faceoff.\n<ul>\n<li>In 2016, around 250 Chinese troops showed up, crossing a point which India says marks the LAC.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3><strong>Historical importance of Tawang sector<\/strong><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Tawang is the birthplace of the sixth Dalai Lama and an important pilgrimage centre for Tibetan Buddhists.<\/li>\n<li>The 14th Dalai Lama took refuge in Tawang after he crossed over from Tibet to India in 1959, spending some days in the monastery there before proceeding further.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3><strong>Context of India-China new crisis at Tawang<\/strong><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>The PLA\u2019s motivation for creating a new crisis along the disputed border, this time in the east, appears to be to extend the points of confrontation and keep the issue of India China border alive<\/li>\n<li>This is at a time when the world is engaged in overcoming multiple crisis emanating from the War in Ukraine.<\/li>\n<li>The Yangtse incident came days after China said that the joint India-US military exercise Operation Yudhabhyas had violated the terms of the 1993 and 1996 border agreements.\n<ul>\n<li>The 18th edition of the India-US joint military exercise Yudh Abhyas was held recently in Uttarakhand, about 100 km from the LAC.\n<ul>\n<li>The 1993 agreement deals with maintaining peace and tranquility along the LAC.<\/li>\n<li><u>The 1996 pact was about confidence building measures<\/u> in the military field along the LAC with China.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3><strong>Recent aggressive actions of China in eastern sector<\/strong><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>As part of the Chinese strategy to assert its territorial claims over Indian territory, Beijing, in January 2022, announced Chinese names for 15 places in Arunachal Pradesh.\n<ul>\n<li>Earlier, in April 2017, its Ministry of Civil Affairs had issued <u>official Chinese names for six places in the state.<\/u><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>China\u2019s national legislature in October 2021 adopted a new law on the <u>protection and exploitation of the land border areas<\/u> that came into effect on January 1, 2022.\n<ul>\n<li>The new law formalizes some of China\u2019s recent actions in disputed territories with both India and Bhutan.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>It has deployed a high number of reserve troops along the LAC in the Eastern Command and has conducted annual training exercises of longer duration in depth areas.<\/li>\n<li>Besides increased patrolling activities in the region, it has constructed dual-use border villages and troop habitats which can be used by both military and civilians.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3><strong>Q1) What is Tawang known for?<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>Besides being famous for its natural splendour, Tawang is known for its 400-year old monastery, i.e., Tawang Monastery. It is a Buddhist Monastery and a prominent pilgrim centre among the locals.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3><strong>Q2) What is the importance of Yangtze to China?<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>The 700,000-square-mile Yangtze River basin provides water, transport, and food for almost one-third of China&#8217;s 1.3 billion people and supplies more than 40% of the country&#8217;s GDP.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Recently, Indian and Chinese soldiers clashed in the upper reaches of Tawang sector in Arunachal Pradesh.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":34012,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-34011","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-mains-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34011","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34011"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34011\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34012"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34011"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34011"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34011"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}