SNEHESH ALEX PHILIP for The Print
New Delhi: China has completed the construction of a strategic bridge over Pangong Tso on territory it holds in Khurnak, the narrowest part of the lake that straddles Ladakh and Tibet. It’s now building roads to connect this to one of its biggest military garrisons in the region, the latest satellite pictures show.
In January this year, ThePrint reported that the Indian defence and security establishment had found that a bridge was being built with pre-fabricated structures over the northern part of Pangong Tso.
Sources had said that this was being built to counter any future moves by the Indian Army on the lines of its August 2020 operation, which led to the capture of dominating heights on Pangong Tso’s southern banks.
The bridge, which was completed in the first week of April, will cut down a 180-km loop from Khurnak to the south banks through Rutog county in Tibet, where the People’s Liberation Army (PLA) has an important garrison.
The latest satellite imagery of the locations shows that the Chinese have now also started road construction work.
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