A source familiar with a previously unreported U.S. intelligence review of the encounter in the Arunachal Pradesh region said that US intelligence helped India beat back China.
India was able to repel a Chinese military incursion in contested border territory in the high Himalayas late last year due to unprecedented intelligence-sharing with the U.S. military, U.S. News has learned, an act that caught China’s People’s Liberation Army forces off-guard, enraged Beijing and appears to have forced the Chinese Communist Party to reconsider its approach to land grabs along its borders.
The U.S. government for the first time provided real-time details to its Indian counterparts of the Chinese positions and force strength in advance of a PLA incursion, says a source familiar with a previously unreported U.S. intelligence review of the encounter into the Arunachal Pradesh region. The information included actionable satellite imagery and was more detailed and delivered more quickly than anything the U.S. had previously shared with the Indian military.
It made a difference.
The subsequent clash on Dec. 9 involving hundreds of troops wielding spiked clubs and Tasers did not result in any deaths as previous encounters have, rather it was limited to a dozen or so injuries and – most conspicuously – a Chinese retreat.
“They were waiting. And that’s because the U.S. had given India everything to be fully prepared for this,” the source says. “It demonstrates a test case of the success of how the two militaries are now cooperating and sharing intelligence.”
Several current and former analysts and officials, some speaking on the condition of anonymity, confirmed details of the encounter as well as the American role, to include unprecedented support the U.S. military provided to India on the ground – the fruits of a new era of cooperation between the two powers in recognition of their shared ambitions to push back on Chinese expansionism.
The South China Morning Post reported that China simulated a ballistic missile attack on the US and a North Korean missile could strike the center of the US in 1,997 seconds or almost 33 minutes.
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I find this article as a smoke screen to sow seeds of discord between India and China. India that has been sending satellites has no such facility sound quite out of the box story..Cartosat is the satellite that India has for pin point location images and also India has the capacity to tap phones from China. I don’t think India on the other hand will tolerate any 3rd party interference in border dispute..India is not going to be Ukraine and wage such war against China as Ukraine was used against Russia. Besides I remember US media – Russia is running out of weapons, Russian is fighting with shovels, Russia has lost 100K soldiers and blah blah…so words and only words….