New strategic road enters Aksai Chin from the North. It's the 3rd connectivity from Sinkiang, first two exist via Haji Langar and Qaratagh.
This connectivity will bypass the existing 300 km long Kangxiwar-Depsang route & reduce it to around 150 km.
Road building started late 2023

Mapped: All 30 named from the 4th list published by 🇨🇳's Ministry of Civil Affairs.

The list consists of One pass (Hatung La), Ten Residential areas (Villages), One Lake (The biggest lake in Arunachal), Four rivers, and Fourteen mountain peaks.

Is this a cognitive warfare?

Update:

In the Eastern Himalayas, progress on the alternate connectivity to the 'Tawang Bowl' from the Kameng Sector is also visible. They'll formally announce soon, I assume!

The strengthening of the Ground Lines of Communications along our frontier with Tibet continues.

I explore the strategic importance of the road held back due to a 🇧🇹 request amidst boundary negotiations with 🇨🇳.
M1: Location of Bletting-Doksum Road Axis.
M2: How it provides & alt connectivity in case of hot conflict in the future. (In '62, some elements retreated via it.)

As reports suggest, one might think of the reasons for 🇮🇳 move to strengthen her positions in the middle sector by streamlining command structure & rationalizing force levels. Is it new infrastructure building and increased force levels of PLA in Zanda in comparison to the past?

Videos show forceful behaviour with monks by 🇨🇳 due to new dam?

Yena Pal Tashi Lhatse monastery of Yache bordering Yangbuting village along the Dri Chu (Yangtse), 15 km as the crow flies (60 km by road) from Derge of Kham, Tibet.

Even in Nov 1957, 🇨🇳 arrested monks from here!

> It is an undefined frontier. For long 🇮🇳 nomads were not allowed to graze there. 🇮🇳 army restored grazing rights and helped re-establish 🇮🇳 nomadic presence after years.
More: x.com/NatureDesai/st…

> Traditional customary boundary lies at Chang la, 20 km beyond current LAC.

Video geolocated near LAC @ 33.1189°, 79.1415°.

This time 🇨🇳 PLA bullied nomads some 1 km inside 🇮🇳 administered area.

Interesting that they crossed their own claim line too!

I remember, in Qi Fabao vs. ITBP officer video, our folks were inside their administered Ladakhi area

Geolocated Kyang Thang རྐྱང་ཐང་.

Chepzi-Chumar border areas, southern ladakh.
Coordinates: 32.600858°, 78.513753.

Someone seems to have dammed the Mapcha Tsangpo - known as Ghaghara (in UP 🇮🇳) or Karnali (in Nepal 🇳🇵) or Saryu (in Ayodhya/Awadh).

Interesting optics from our northern neighbour. What can you do even as we've dammed your sacred rivers; be it Sindhu, Sutlej, Siang or now Saryu.

Update:
Drone image showing the xiaokang in Nagdoh bowl of the Shao Chu valley less than 3 miles from Bum La & less than 5 miles from Chumi Gyatse.

Coordinates: 27.76431° N, 91.90842° E
Elevation: Around 4100m

ལོ་གསར་བཀྲ་ཤིས་བདེ་ལེགས Losar Tashi Delek

1) Today marks the beginning of Ladakhi New Year. Traditionally, Tibetan calendar dictates that Losar be celebrated after the twelfth month, towards the END of winter.

So what happened in Ladakh? It has an interesting bit of history🧵

All🇨🇳 villages in western 🇧🇹 & the changed status quo

1. Amo chu valley - Pangda village cluster
2. Langmarpo chu valley
3. Shakhatoe valley village cluster
4. Dramana valley xiaokang

Let's see if 🇧🇹 let go these valleys in new border demarcation

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