Is India starting to flex its military muscles?
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Authors
Ganguly, Sumit
Kapur, S. Paul
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Bhutan
China
India
Military
Narendra Modi
Pakistan
Bhutan
China
India
Military
Narendra Modi
Pakistan
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2017-10-17
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This summer, India deployed troops to prevent China's People's Liberation Army (PLA) from constructing a road on the Doklam plateau near the contested Bhutan-China-India border. Indian forces stood in the path of the construction crews, blocking their work and at times even tussling with Chinese troops. Despite increasingly harsh warnings from Beijing, including the threat of "all-out confrontation ," the Indians held fast. After a nearly two-month standoff, both sides disengaged and the PLA stopped its road-building activity, though China made clear that it would "continue fulfilling its sovereign rights" by stationing troops and patrolling in the area.
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7 p.
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S. Ganguly, S. P. Kapur, "Is India starting to flex its military muscles?" foreignpolicy.com, October 17, 2017, 7 p.
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