China appears to be building new structures near the site of a deadly border clash with Indian troops earlier this months - despite both sides pledging to 'disengage'. China is also thought to have lost men, but has not reported any deaths. The Chinese interest in the region surrounds President Xi Jinping's centrepiece 'Belt and Road' policy to have vast infrastructure throughout the old Silk Road. Satellite images taken this week show a new Chinese base and road being built near the Galwan River, which was the site of clashes with Indian troops earlier this … It was a heavy defeat for India and led to the new border, the LAC, being established and pushing India back from McMahon line.Uninhabitable desert: The Galwan Valley where the mass brawl between the Indian and Chinese forces took place. The Maxar satellite photos released this week appear to show China has put a tank company and artillery units at a camp north of Gogra. The war lasted for one month and left more than 2,000 dead on both sides. )The Himalayan border between India and China has been disputed for centuries, but the two countries have been fighting over it most recently since the 1960s.In the 18th century it was fought over by the Russian, Chinese and British empires, and after India gained independence ownership of the region became more confused.China values the region because it provides a trading route to Pakistan, and recent hostilities have been sparked by fears in Beijing that India will cut it off from the crucial overland corridor.The current official border between the two was set by Britain and is known as the McMahon line. Beijing fears that increased Indian presence in the region will cut off its trade route to PakistanMuch of the reason for the ongoing conflict is the ill-defined border, the result of a confused status the region had during the colonial era, which was made more murky by India's war with Pakistan in 1947.Chinese interest in the region surrounds President Xi Jinping's centrepiece 'Belt and Road' foreign policy to have vast infrastructure throughout the old Silk Road. It features satellite images from Brazil and China’s joint mission, CBERS-4, alongside U.S., UK and India’s Earth-observing missions: Aqua, Terra, Landsat-8, ResourceSat, Suomi-NPP, DEIMOS, and UK-DMC 2. China appears to have rebuilt and expanded a military camp in the Himalayas that was the site of a deadly border clash with India, satellite images show.The images, from the US satellite operator Maxar Technologies, were taken Monday, a week after what has been described as hand-to-hand fighting with sticks and clubs China has not given any casualty numbers from the clash in a river valley along the Beijing says the deadly clash began when Indian troops crossed into Chinese-controlled territory and tried to dismantle a tent camp erected by Chinese forces in the Galwan Valley at what is known as Patrol Point 14.The new satellite images appear to show a large expansion of the "The small outpost ... has grown hugely in size," Nathan Ruser, a researcher at the Australian Strategic Policy Institute who first shared the images, At least one analyst, however, cast doubt on what the images showed. 'So if they are telling us verbally they are ready to pull back, we will wait to see it on the ground. 'There is a trust deficit so far as the Chinese are concerned,' said former Indian army chief Deepak Kapoor. The views expressed in the contents above are those of our users and do not necessarily reflect the views of MailOnline. Yet the Indians had just two divisions posted at the border when the Chinese invaded, never suspecting that Beijing would be so bold as to cross the McMahon Line. (Reporting by Simon Scarr and Sanjeev Miglani; Additional reporting by Tony Munroe in Beijing; Editing by Lincoln Feast.
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