Indeed, the Chinese intrusion this time in the Daulat Beg Oldie area in Ladakh region, close to Aksai Chin, is of much more serious nature than the previous such intrusions, which were brushed aside as the routine affair by the Government of India and the Army alike.
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It is different from the days when the Chinese troops would come, write their claim on rocks or shower pamphlets from choppers, dismantle Indian bunkers, saying that Indian shepherds should stay away from the Chinese pastures, and stop work on the roads. This time, it is much more serious than simple posturing.
Now, it seems that during all the previous intrusions and thereafter sending their troops to Gilgit and Baltistan area in Pakistan occupied Kashmir, Chinese were testing the waters: to what extent India would respond and how.
