Thanks for clarifications.yensoy wrote:From some online research I have concluded that we are well established at Finger 4 (the "ITBP" sign) and patrol till the crest of the next finger like protrusion into the lake at the corner where the lake bends from NS to EW; and I think the Chinese patrol beyond that. They have a pucca road built till Sirijap from there.pratik wrote:https://twitter.com/CRolanova/status/12 ... 95360?s=20
I am trying to find the info on Pangong lake and chinese presence on our soil. As per the above tweet, If chinese are sitting at Finger-4/5 than it is almost 43 km incursion in our area.
- Is the road on northern edge of the lake between Finger-1 to Finger-8 ours?
Thank you.
Now we can claim the 8th finger and conclude that the Chinese have intruded but that has been the case from before. Sirijap actually has some habitations, so it's not some rapidly constructed Chinese bunker. The disputed roadway would basically be between Finger 4 and 5, and our interest is in keeping them from proceeding no further ahead from the turnaround they have constructed at 33 43 17.3, 78 45 48.8 so they don't have a clear optical view of the other end of the lake.
In that sense, our claim between the ITBP sign and the turnarond is not enforced by way of road. I hope we have pushed in a company or so of soldiers by way of the lake to camp out on the beach, while the road construction crew are chipping away at the rock, and that we have a pucca road till the above point by the end of summer. Maybe the skirmishes are happening by the beach here with the Chinese trying to further ingress and stop our road construction.
Likewise on the southern side. The LAC alignment in wikimapia seems to be correct because on the south side there is the flag meeting location which I presume isn't disputed, and there are some well known landmarks such as Camel's back, Table Top and a pass, with paths on either side connecting to paved roads in their respective administered areas. It doesn't look like there is much room for dispute, in fact there is more room for us to ingress into their side of LAC given how close to the LAC our roads run; we also seem to have a height advantage of sorts there.
The twitter image is patently false in the way it depicts the southern side balance. There is no "Chinese Forward Camp". That place is between 2 Indian villages Maan and Spangmik, well within Indian controlled territory that they will be truly besieged on all sides by us, including the water.
Does it mean that location 33 43 17.3, 78 45 48.8 is a finger-4?