China on January 21, 2020 dismissed a report that said it had built a village in Arunachal Pradesh. China said that the construction activities were within its own territory and its sovereign right.
- Recently, using satellite images, the television channel NDTV reported the village is located on the banks of the Tsari Chu river, which lies in the area disputed between India and China.
- However the Indian defence officials say that the village on the disputed border in Upper Subansiri district was on territory under Chinese control. They say that the area was occupied by the People’s Liberation Army (PLA) by overrunning an Assam Rifles post in 1959. It is known as the Longju incident.
- The River Tsari Chu, also known as the Majidun River, is a tributary of the Subansiri River (called the Xibaxia Qu River in China) in China’s Tibet Autonomous Region.
- China claims Arunachal Pradesh as part of southern Tibet (Zangnan ) which is contrary to the India’s consistent stand that the northeastern state is an integral and inalienable part of India.
