Chinese Incursions Inside Arunachal Pradesh

(Part I)
1. Chinese soldiers were coming in deeper into our territory.
2. There had been 146 incursions in just 2007.
3. The Chinese were now preventing locals from going up to regions where they had been taking their animals for grazing;
4. There had been a statue of the Buddha well inside Indian Territory. Local inhabitants used to go up to it - pray, make their offerings. The local commander of the Chinese troops had told Indian soldiers that the statue must be removed. Our soldiers had pointed out that the statue was well within Indian Territory, and so there was no question of removing it. The Chinese had come, and blown off the status.
5. Why Geography Matters, by the well-known geographer, Harm de Blij. Setting the stage, Blij points to the clues that one can get from maps, and why it is important to pay attention to them - especially when governments publish them. He recall 'a telling experience he had in 1990. A colleague of his, working then at the University of Baghdad, had sent him an official map that had been published by the Government of Iraq. The map showed Kuwait as the 13th province of Iraq. At a meeting in Washington, Blij had drawn the attention of the then chairman of the foreign affairs committee of the US House of Representatives to the map and its implications. The gentleman had told Blij not to worry, the US Ambassador, he said, was on top of things. A few days had not passed, and Iraq had marched its armies into Kuwait. The first Gulf War….
Arun Shouri
The Indian Express, 12.2.2008
Title "Shipla Shetty Trumps Arunachal again"