China sees Bhutan as the final piece in its South Asian conquests

Ever since 2017, Xi Jinping has been vociferous in pushing China to expand into new frontiers along its borders and outside of it.

There are times the world suddenly wakes up to reality. It almost seems like the same when satellite imagery analysts and conflict experts worldwide have suddenly woken up to China’s excesses in Bhutanese territory only in the year 2021. At least four new village settlements have been identified along the Sino-Bhutan border areas. The fact is, these have been coming for the last few years. Its only that the world has woken up to it now.

Ever since 2017, Xi Jinping has been vociferous about pushing China to expand into new frontiers along its borders and outside of it. The focus has been around Tibetan borderlands and the border along Bhutan to outflank and marginalize India in the South-Asian perspective.