paritosh
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The whole area is disputed. Doesn’t matter what each party thinks.Unclaimed territory? Are you sure?
You have put your forces on a few tops that are inside your claim line and Chinese never occupied those.
It's like you are inside your home, and installing few more locks on the door because you fear that someone standing in your garden (which he has recently claimed and occupied) may break in.
I am speaking from the Chinese perspective. If India is lying about the “claims”, then we have planted a flag where there wasn’t one. Let’s try and isolate the narrative here, it’s either Indian territory or Chinese territory or an unclaimed territory. It definitely is disputed. Let’s start from there. The area has always been disputed on paper, which serves Chinese designs. By escalating the situation, the Chinese have done a Hail Mary and committed. Each party now has to bring to bear the goods to back their claims.
A better analogy would be to imagine adjacent plots of land with unclear demarcations, and contesting claims of plot sizes by the two owners who don’t really live on the plot and have houses in the city and have fought for so long that one owner has started building a boundary wall. The other has to escalate or accept what’s left outside the boundary wall as his.