On December 27, 2024, China announced the formation of two counties, He’an and Hekang, in Hotan Prefecture, part of the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region (East Turkestan). The new territorial units will be located in the Indian territories of Ladakh, which have been occupied since 1959 and are known in China as Aksai Chin.
This decision was made by Xi Jinping 9 days after the first in 5 years of Indo-China talks on the Line of Actual Control (their unrecognized border)
On December 26, 2024, China decided to build the world’s largest hydroelectric power plant worth $137 billion on the Brahmaputra River in the border area to the Indian state of Arunachal Pradesh, which Beijing considers part of China’s Tibetan Autonomous Region. The Modi government protested both decisions as illegal and dangerous.
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