Is China encroaching upon Indian territory in Arunachal Pradesh?

New Delhi, India — China has denied the Indian army access to key patrolling points and encroached on land in the Indian border state of Arunachal Pradesh, according to a fact-finding team of regional politicians allied with Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government.The report has sparked political outrage in New Delhi, where the opposition has criticised Modi for silence over alleged Chinese encroachment on several border fronts in recent years.The new revelations pertain to Upper Subansiri, a remote and rugged, mountainous district in the northeastern state of Arunachal Pradesh. The fact-finding report threatens to upend a thaw in ties between India and China, bitter rivals that fought a war in 1962, amid US President Donald Trump’s trade wars that have targeted both New Delhi and Beijing. It also comes weeks before Chinese President Xi Jinping is expected to visit India for the BRICS summit, which New Delhi is hosting on September 12-13.India shares a 3,488-km border with China, which runs along New Delhi’s northern and eastern borders, in regions like Jammu and Kashmir, Ladakh, Sikkim and Arunachal Pradesh. Large parts of the border are disputed. India and China do not even agr...