#China Is Building Entire Villages in Another Country’s Territory
Since 2015, a new network of roads, buildings & military outposts has been constructed deep in a sacred valley in #Bhutan
it openly violates China’s founding treaty with Bhutan.
foreignpolicy.com/2021/05/07/chi…
Since 2015, a new network of roads, buildings & military outposts has been constructed deep in a sacred valley in #Bhutan
it openly violates China’s founding treaty with Bhutan.
foreignpolicy.com/2021/05/07/chi…
2) This involves a strategy that is more provocative than anything China has done on its land borders in the past.
The settlement of an entire area within another country goes far beyond the forward patrolling and occasional road-building that led to war with India in 1962.
The settlement of an entire area within another country goes far beyond the forward patrolling and occasional road-building that led to war with India in 1962.
3) By mirroring in the Himalayas the provocative tactics it has used in the #SouthChinaSea, Beijing is risking its relations with its neighbors, whose needs and interests it has always claimed to respect, and jeopardizing its reputation worldwide. 
4) Since 2015, China built 3 villages, 7 roads & 5+ military outposts in the Beyul & Menchuma Valleys.
There is little Bhutan can do, the 1998 agreement where both sides undertook not to alter the status of disputed areas, has been shredded by Beijing’s actions on the ground.
There is little Bhutan can do, the 1998 agreement where both sides undertook not to alter the status of disputed areas, has been shredded by Beijing’s actions on the ground.
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