According to India media reports, Chinese troops had climbed a small mountain when they were confronted by Indian security forces.
The Chinese side claimed it was their territory and said they were headed towards Tible area, five kilometres deep into the Indian territory, following orders from People?s Liberation Army headquarters to conduct some photography in the area.
However, after a usual face-off drill, the Chinese troops returned. According to reports, they also sought assistance from the Indian side in getting some food as they had run out of their stock.
Chumar, located 300 kms from Leh, has the distinction of having a defined International Border with China.
Indian army sources have said that the 'assertive posturing' by the Chinese troops has been flashed to all units along the China-India border in the area to keep a strict vigil on their movement.
In April this year, a Chinese platoon had entered and set up camp about 19 km into Indian territory in the Depsang Valley and had refused to budge for about three weeks despite repeated requests from India.
After a 21-day face-off during which there were intense negotiations amid increasing tension, China agreed to withdraw its platoon. In return, India agreed to dismantle seven bunkers that it was building in the Chumar sector.
On Tuesday, India and China held their third meeting on border affairs in New Delhi, amidst reports of continued incursions by the Chinese side including one on June 17 in Chumar where Chinese troops took away an Indian Army surveillance camera meant for keeping an eye on the PLA troops patrolling there.
According to reports, India raised the issue of recent incursions and the lack of coordination, especially during the Depsang valley incident, when the Chinese Foreign Ministry was not speaking in the same voice as the Chinese troops on ground-level, during the two-day Mechanism for Consultation and Coordination on India-China Border Affairs talks.
India recently gave the go ahead for raising a Mountain Strike Corps, which will see the deployment of 40,000 additional soldiers along the Indo-Tibetan border to counter China's military strength.
The Strike Corps will be headquartered at Panagarh in West Bengal and will have an independent armoured brigade, an artillery brigade with the Indian Air Force deploying its newly-acquired medium lift C-130 J Hercules Transport Aircraft designed for aiding special operations.
Earlier this week, the state-run Xinhua news agency released pictures of China's Air Force conducting high-altitude night flying exercises in Lhasa, the ancient capital of the Tibet, located about 500 km from the Indian border.
Last year, PLA held its "first ground to air military exercise" in the Tibetan plateau, involving scores of fighter jets, hundreds of battle tanks and a large number of ground troops.
China has about five fully-operational airbases, a well laid down rail network and over 58,000- km of roads along the Indian border, which enable it to move over 30 divisions (each with over 15,000 soldiers) to the LAC, outnumbering the Indian forces.
After the fall of Tibet in 1959, India and China have shared a 3488 km long disputed border which was the cause of a short but bloody war in 1962. Since then, the two Asian giants have shared uneasy military ties with a series of border talks failing to yield much result.
Source: http://www.phayul.com/news/article.aspx?id=33788
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