Our border is with Tibet, not China: Arunachal CM Pema Swipe in Khandu Beijing. Bharat News
Arunachal Pradesh shared a 1,200 km boundary with Tibet, not with China, Chief Minister Pema Khandu on Wednesday declared a surgical swipe for the claim for the northeast state in a surgical swipe in Beijing, and also said that he called a tick “water bomb” as the world’s largest dam project.He said, “Officially, yes, Tibet is now under China. It cannot be dismissed … but basically we shared a limit with Tibet,” he described PTI in Delhi from the Dalai Lama’s 90th birthday celebration.“In Arunachal Pradesh, we share three international borders – about 150 km with Bhutan, with Tibet … and on the eastern side, about 550 km with Myanmar.”Khandu credited to strengthen the BJP’s grip in the third consecutive term as CM and the state, demanding the interviewer to “correct”, the moment he referred to Arunachal Pradesh for China’s border.Pointing to China’s “forcible” occupation of Tibet in 1950, Khandu said that if someone looks at the map of India, “None of the Indian states shares borders directly with China”.The CM’s statement comes amidst China’s intense dialect to seal its authority over the succession of the Dalai Lama. Union Minister and partner Kiren Rijiju, a native of Arunachal Pradesh, recently said that this decision should be taken only according to his and the established Tibetan Buddhist conference to be the successor of the Dalai Lama. He said that no government should say with the communist rule of China.China is constructing the Dam on Yarlung Tsangpo, the Tibetan name for the Brahmaputra, Khandu warned that the project is a “existence threat” for Arunachal and its neighboring northeastern states. They called it a “a big issue”, which hangs in the region compared to anything other than Chinese “military threats”. Khandu said that Beijing is not a signator for any international water treaty, which meant that it could not be “trusted”. “Nobody knows what they can do … Suppose the dam has been constructed and they suddenly release water, our entire Siang belt will be destroyed. The tribe and similar groups will suffer the destructive effects,” he said. The CM said that after discussion with the central government, Arunachal Pradesh conceived the Siang Additional Multipurpose Project against China’s intentions. “Since we cannot see China the reason, it is better that we focus on our own defense mechanisms and preparations,” he told PTI.
