- India has registered its protest with Beijing against China’s “illegal attempts” to “alter facts on the ground” in the Shaksgam valley of Pakistan-occupied Kashmir which faces the Siachen glacier.
- The Shaksgam Valley is a part of the territory of India. India has never accepted the so-called China-Pakistan Boundary Agreement of 1963 through which Pakistan unlawfully attempted to cede the area to China.
- Recent satellite pictures indicate China is building a road into the lower Shaksgam Valley.
- The Siachen glacier is a piece of Indian territory wedged between China and Pakistan.
- The 2020 standoff between Indian and Chinese troops in eastern Ladakh has made the control of Siachen even more critical for India.
- China has undertaken a massive build-up and deployment along the Line of Actual Control threatening Indian positions in Depsang and Daulat Beg Oldie.
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