It's been a year since the Chinese established foothold 15 to 18 kms well inside the Indian territory in Depsang sector of Northern Ladakh. The control of Depsang provides the PLA with a launching pad to capture Daulat Beg Oldie (DBO) post which is located 30 kms away. Also the..

..Chinese can threaten the strategically important 255 km long Darbuk-Shayok-DBO (DSDBO) which connects Leh to DBO at the base of the Karakoram Pass; 8 kms away from Gilgit. The capture of DBO could cut off India from the Karakom pass and allow China to...

...seize 20,000 ft high Saser La on the west of Depsang. This would open the link to Sasoma and allow the Chinese to make inroads towards the Siachin Glacier.

It had taken almost two decades for the India’s Border Roads Organisation (BRO) to construct the DSDBO road.

The DSDBO highway runs parallel to the LAC and provides the Indian army access to Tibet-Xinjaing highway which passes through Aksai Chin. The Chinese have neutralized the threat within a year after the road was completed in 2019.

After the 9th round of talks, a disengagement agreement was reached. But it covered only the less important Pangong Tso sector in Central Ladakh. There was no mention of Depsang sector.

Modi was coerced by Xi Jinping to cede the strategically important territory in Ladakh.

Not to forget that the People's Liberation Army (PLA) of China had occupied all of the Despang plains in the 1962 war when India lost territory equivalent to the land area of Switzerland before China announced the withdrawal on 20 Nov 1962 to its claimed "Line of Actual Control".