"Need Predictable Ties": S Tharoor On China Amid ITBP Chief Remark Row
Congress MP Shashi Tharoor has expressed deep concern over India's border relations with China, citing a lack of trust and economic over-dependence. He highlighted China's hostile actions, including alleged satellite data sharing with Pakistan during recent conflicts.
Why it matters
The comments underscore the growing geopolitical tension between the world's two most populous nations and the risks associated with economic interdependence.
Amid a political row over Indo-Tibetan Border Police (ITBP) chief Shatrujeet Kapur's purported remarks that the Army is successfully dealing with a "face-off (with China) in Arunachal Pradesh", Congress MP Shashi Tharoor on Friday said that India has very many frustrations with China for good reason."The way in which China has behaved on our borders, the way in which they've nibbled away at our territory, their overt support for Pakistan during the brief conflict (Op Sindoor) between our two countries last year is worrying," Tharoor said at NDTV World Summit."China not only supplied a vast amount of weapons, which is their legal right to do, but also supplied real-time data while the conflict was going on from their satellite spot above our territory, which was actually a hostile act.
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