New Delhi: A senior US Army official, working on the Indo-Pacific region, has said that there is potential for more offensives from China along the border with India.
“The activities [of] what’s called the Western Theater Army in and along that area have been concerning for a number of months,” General Charles Flynn, commander of US Army Pacific, said according to US News.
“That area has become more concerning because of their actions along the Line of Actual Control,” Flynn continued, referring to parts of the mountainous border region that both India and China claim. “Nations represented in that part of South Asia have voiced similar concerns as well.”
According to US News, the US general refused to give details on whether China had taken any new measures along the border that was leading to this warning.
A top White House official too recently said that Beijing has recently taken some “provocative” steps along the India-China border.
According to PTI, Kurt Campbell, deputy assistant to the US president and coordinator for the Indo-Pacific, told Washington-based think-tank Centre for a New American Security, “Some of the steps that China has taken along this vast 5,000-mile border had been provocative and deeply concerning to Indian partners and friends.”
He also said that India is not an ally of the US and will never be so. “But it does not mean that we will not be close partners and share many things. That’s how we need to understand the role that India will play as a great nation on the global stage. We want to encourage that and support that and deepen this relationship, which is already very strong, probably the strongest people-to-people relationship of any country that the US has on the global stage,” Campbell said.