China creates tension at the border to mask domestic troubles
Xi Jinping creating new problems outside, to distract from his troubles at home.
Editorial Staff
China creates tension at the border to mask domestic troubles
China is facing massive job loss, protests due to coronavirus pandemic and other economic situations. World attention was fixed on Hong Kong protests as China worked new law.
But border tension has shifted attention from Hong Kong, Covid-19 and economic issues to India-China border disputes.
Xi Jinping creating new problems outside, to distract from his troubles at home.
On the intervening night of August 29 and 30 — the PLA carried out what has been described as "provocative military movements".
India foiled an attempt by Chinese troops to change the status quo on their disputed border -- the Line of Actual Control (LAC) -- in a fresh flare-up between the two nuclear-armed nations.
But China refuted India's statement, claiming its troops "never cross the line of actual control".
"On the Night of 29/30 August 2020, PLA troops violated the previous consensus arrived at during military and diplomatic engagements during the ongoing standoff in Eastern Ladakh…
