US Defence Report Mentions Chinese Village In Arunachal Reported By NDTV

China has continued taking incremental and tactical actions to press its claims at the Line of Actual Control, says the report by the US Department of Defence

The annual United States Department of Defence report on military developments involving China details the US perception of the tension along the Line of Actual Control or LAC, and also refers to the creation of a 100-home Chinese village in Arunachal Pradesh.  The report has been submitted to the US Congress.

Details of the presence of this new Chinese village which lies squarely within Indian territory, south of the McMahon line, was first reported by NDTV in January based on high-resolution satellite imagery of the area.

In a chapter on the China-India border standoff, the US Department of Defence says, "Sometime in 2020, the PRC (People's Republic of China) built a large 100-home civilian village inside disputed territory between the PRC's Tibet Autonomous Region and India's Arunachal Pradesh state in the eastern sector of the LAC."

The report says, "These and other infrastructure development efforts along the India-China have been a source of consternation in the Indian government and media."