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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Shweta Sharma

Satellite images show China advancing into contested India border territory as Xi travels to New Delhi

Panic has gripped the remote frontier villages of India’s border with China, where tribal communities say they are being pushed back from their ancestral yak-grazing and hunting landsdue to a rapidly growing threat – the advancing Chinese Army.

Satellite images accessed by The Independent show a rapid expansion of infrastructure at multiple sites along and near the disputed India-China frontier in Arunachal Pradesh, including new buildings, roads, as well as helipads.

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