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发帖数: 26623 | 1 The India-China military standoff at Doklam was apparently based on Indian
misperception of Chinese intentions.
An alternative narration of events leading to the military standoff suggests
that the skirmish might have been blown out of proportion and was
completely unnecessary. And even though eventually the standoff was resolved
through diplomatic negotiations, India was not a net gainer at the end of
it.
The Chinese army personnel are still present at a distance of 250 metres
from the site of the confrontation. This is where they were before June 16.
The Indian Army meanwhile has vacated the area that the Chinese wanted
vacated.
According to sources in the security establishment, the standoff which was
projected as a result of Chinese road construction activity in the Doklam
area was anything but that. A Chinese motorable road apparently already
exists in the area. It has been there since 2003 or 2005, according to
different estimates.
The standoff, according to these sources, had its origins not in any road-
construction activity in the disputed area between China and Bhutan but in
the destruction of two Indian Army bunkers in the area.
There are apparently two dozen bunkers in that area. Known as Self-Help
Bunkers (SBH), they are not occupied all the time. The Chinese have for long
objected to two bunkers that they claim have been built in an area which is
within their perception line of their border with Bhutan.
Although Bhutan claims the area, Indian Army units under the control of 17
Mountain Division at Gangtok in Sikkim, patrol it. This includes the area
where the two disputed bunkers are located.
The Chinese periodically use bulldozers to destroy the two bunkers whenever
they are unoccupied. The Indian Army units patrolling the area equally
periodically reconstruct them. This is not considered unusual activity in a
disputed border area. Since this is China’s border with Bhutan but is
patrolled by the Indian Army, the issue is never raised to a higher pitch.
In November 2007 also the Chinese Peoples’ Liberation Army (PLA) had moved
into Bhutan's Doklam Plateau and demolished a hut close to some Indian
bunkers. The hut was apparently a rest house used by the Indian Army. The
Indian side kept the matter quiet as the bunkers were located in Bhutan but
manned by Indian Army personnel. In July that year, the PLA had also written
to the 17 Mountain Division Headquarters about two “illegal” Indian
bunkers but they were at Batangla near the disputed tri-junction (where the
borders of India, Bhutan and China meet) warning of “adverse consequences”
if they were not removed. The matter was swept under the carpet as the two
armies were to conduct joint exercises a month later in December 2017. In
2008 also the PLA had destroyed two bunkers in precisely the same area in
Doklam where this June’s standoff took place.
Whenever new Indian Army unit are deployed in the area, the outgoing units
apparently don’t inform the incoming unit that the breaking and
reconstruction of these two bunkers in particular takes place routinely.
According to sources, this summer when a new army unit was deployed for
patrolling the area they decided to spruce up the bunkers, including the two
disputed ones. The PLA soldiers suddenly saw something new happening– the
Indian soldiers were painting the two bunkers in question in regulation
brownish-saffron army colour. The PLA soldiers could not comprehend the
enthusiasm of the newly deployed Indian army unit and thought that something
more permanent was being built.
Predictably, when the bunkers were unoccupied, the PLA brought out its
bulldozers and demolished the bunkers. When the Indian patrol discovered
this, not knowing the previous history of such demolitions and
reconstructions, they informed their superior officers about the
aggressiveness of the Chinese.
The message that Chinese bulldozers were in action in Doklam, according to
sources, went all the way up to the Major General who is the General Officer
Commanding of the 17 Mountain Division based at Gangtok. He in turn
informed his bosses in Army Headquarters in Delhi.
Sources claim that the Chinese use of bulldozers was linked to possible road
construction activities by the army authorities sitting in Gangtok. They
presumed that the Chinese were extending the existing road from Doka La (
Doka Pass) through the Doklam Plateau towards the Bhutan Army camp at
Zompelri near the Jampheri Ridge.
The senior army officers in Delhi also believed the road construction theory
and instructed the local army unit to prevent any road construction and
stay put. Bhutan was taken on board and a full-scale military standoff began
. General Bipin Rawar in fact visited both the 17 Mountain Division at
Gangtok and the 27 Mountain Division at Kalimpong to boost the morale of his
forces and take stock of the ground situation.
The Chinese meanwhile could not fathom why India was over reacting. The
Chinese media went on the offensive and on the Indian side security experts
exaggerated and overplayed the strategic threat to India from the Chinese
road construction activity. A full-scale propaganda war over claims, counter
-claims and charges and counter-charges began.
At the end of it, through a “near-simultaneous” withdrawal of forces to
pre-June 16 positions, the standoff was resolved. Both sides claimed victory
but the Chinese went back only 250 metres while to maintain peace India had
to give up patrolling the area where two destroyed bunkers had existed. The
Chinese got what they wanted.
Although the military standoff is behind us, perhaps an assessment still
needs to be made of the strategic cost-benefit analysis of the confrontation
, the nature of information flow, the response and analysis systems within
the Indian armed forces and the wisdom of the current crop of Indian army
commanders. | S*******l
发帖数: 4637 | 2 奥，原来从前是印度军队代不丹巡逻洞朗。地堡是印军建的，不是不丹军队建的。印军
走了放军就开铲车平掉。印军来巡逻就建，走了放军就拆。双方都巡逻的地区。
现在结果是放军常驻了，印军不能巡逻洞朗了？
这和从前好多信息不一样啊。
要是这个是准确的，那是土共占了上风了。原来双方巡逻的地区变成了中方单独控制了？
中方是咬住这是中不争议区，印度滚蛋，没你丫挺屁事儿？ | g*q
发帖数: 26623 | 3 差不多这么回事.不过文章里还有很多其他有意思的信息
了？
【在 S*******l 的大作中提到】
: 奥，原来从前是印度军队代不丹巡逻洞朗。地堡是印军建的，不是不丹军队建的。印军
: 走了放军就开铲车平掉。印军来巡逻就建，走了放军就拆。双方都巡逻的地区。
: 现在结果是放军常驻了，印军不能巡逻洞朗了？
: 这和从前好多信息不一样啊。
: 要是这个是准确的，那是土共占了上风了。原来双方巡逻的地区变成了中方单独控制了？
: 中方是咬住这是中不争议区，印度滚蛋，没你丫挺屁事儿？
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