Arms Race On The Roof Of The World -- The National/Reuters
TAWANG, INDIA // It has all the appearance of an arms race on the roof of the world.
Asia's two great powers are facing off here in the eastern Himalayan mountains. China has vastly improved roads and is building or extending airports on its side of the border in Tibet. It has placed nuclear-capable intermediate missiles in the area and deployed around 300,000 troops across the Tibetan plateau, according to a 2010 Pentagon report.
India is in the midst of a 10-year plan to scale up its side. In the state of Arunachal Pradesh, new infantry patrols started on the frontier in May, as part of a surge to add some 60,000 men to the 120,000 already in the region. It has stationed two Sukhoi 30 fighter squadrons and will deploy the Brahmos cruise missile.
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My Comment: China has border disputes with all of it's neighbors. But unlike countries like Vietnam, the Philippines, etc.. .... India has the people and the resources to be the long term strategic threat to China's ambitions of being Asia's superpower. I expect this arms race to continue, and tensions on their border to escalate.
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