(Washington Composite Electric) The United States and India will hold joint military exercises near the disputed border between India and China in mid -October this year.
CNN (CNN) quoted a senior military officer in India that the joint military exercise will be held in the mountain area of Auli at 3048 meters of Auli at an altitude of 3048 meters above sea level in India, focusing on high -altitude combat training.Oli is a remote area, only about 95 kilometers from the actual control line of the China -India border.This exercise is part of the 18th "Yudh Abhyas" exercise.
A spokesman for the US Department of Defense said that the US -India partnership is one of the most important elements to ensure the free opening of the Indo -Pacific region.Regional security challenge "."
CNN reports that any military provocation between India and China will bring serious consequences, especially both countries have nuclear weapons.
The relationship between the two countries has been nervous since the conflict between the China -India Army in the remote Himalayas' border in the remote Himalayas in 2020.In that conflict, at least 20 Indian soldiers and four Chinese soldiers died, and the two sides assembled the army in the border area.
Indian media quoted military sources that since mid -June this year, the deployment of Chinese fighters on the actual control line of the border has increased, especially in the Ladaka region.Analysis believes that this will increase the risk of potential misjudgment.
At the beginning of this year, China built a new bridge in Ban Gonghu on the actual control line of the 3488 kilometers of the China -India border, which can shorten the time required for the Chinese army to go to the actual control line.The Indian government condemned China as "illegal occupation", and the tension relationship heated up sharply.The Line of Actual Control is the concept of loose actual border between China and India. It is the product of the Sino -Indian border war in 1962. The two parties later signed a agreement to give the law acknowledge, but so farThere are still controversy at the starting point and end point of the specific territory.
