ITBP Chief Confirms Ongoing Arunachal Face-Offs — SkimNews
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- ITBP Director General Shatrujeet Kapur said at an October 22 event in Alwar that face-offs between Indian and Chinese forces were continuing “at several locations in Arunachal.”
- Nah Welfare Society alleged in a June 26 letter that PLA forces had occupied Indian territory around Taksing and built roads, bridges, and military camps; the Indian Army dismissed the reports as “incorrect and without any basis.”
- Press Information Bureau Fact Check unit rejected videos claiming the PLA had advanced 50-60 km into Indian territory as fake and said the videos did not show the India-China border.
- Taksing Circle was the scene of reported skirmishes on July 25-26 that continued for nearly a week before senior commanders from both sides intervened.
- China claims 90,000 sq km of territory roughly coinciding with Arunachal Pradesh, while India claims 38,000 sq km in Aksai Chin and 5,300 sq km in the Shaksgam Valley.
- India and China held a border-affairs meeting on August 6, a Doval-Wang special-representatives meeting on August 26, an Eastern Sector corps-commanders meeting on September 6, and Modi-Xi contacts on August 31 and September 12.
- India withdrew ITBP companies from the China border and redeployed them to Delhi amid June-July anti-government protests, at a time when the border situation was described as volatile.
Why it matters: Kapur’s October 22 statement confirms confrontations, not the separate allegation that China occupied Indian land, which the Indian Army rejected; the Press Information Bureau had also rejected related videos as fake. The distinction matters because India and China held five high-level contacts from August 6 to September 12 while the border situation continued.
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