India’s Deployment of 10,000 Troops on Dormant Stretch of Tibet Border Signals Increased Tension With China

Deployment along hitherto quiet stretch means relations between the giant neighbors are unlikely to improve soon, experts say.

Indian Border Security Force soldiers patrol as an Indian army convoy passes through on a highway leading towards Leh, bordering China, in Gagangir, India, on June 19, 2020. Yawar Nazir/Getty Images

NEW DELHI—India’s deployment of 10,000 soldiers on the border with China in the Himalayan states of Himachal Pradesh and Uttarakhand indicates that border relations between the two nuclear-armed giants are deteriorating and are unlikely to improve soon, strategic experts say.

“There’s absolutely no trust; the Indians cannot trust the Chinese,” Namrata Hasija, a research fellow with the New Delhi-based Centre for China Analysis and Strategy, told The Epoch Times.