News has emerged that mighty China’s People’s Liberation Army (PLA) had to rotate 90 per cent of its soldiers because they were badly affected by the extreme cold conditions and in Eastern Ladakh.

As per reports by ANI, the PLA was forced to bring fresh troops after many soldiers were badly affected by the extremely cold conditions in the area. 

Since April-May 2020, China has deployed over 50,000 troops close to the Indian territory in eastern Ladakh and has managed to maintain the strength despite the limited troop’s withdrawal from front locations in the Pangong lake sector.

“The Chinese have brought in fresh troops from the hinterland to replace the troops who had been there for the last one year. Around 90 per cent of their troops have been rotated,” sources mentioned to reporters.

However, with the harsh cold conditions in the region and the high altitude, the PLA was forced to rotate its troops almost on a daily basis in the Pangong lake area last year leading to very limited movement.

The Indian Army which has a long history of maintaining a presence in high altitude area stations its troops for a two-year tenure and around 40-50 per cent of soldiers get rotated every year.

But the Indo-Tibetian Border Police (ITBP) which is a para-military force where most of the recruits are from that region sometimes stationed for more than two years.

India and China have deployed troops in eastern Ladakh and other areas along the Line of Actual Control (LAC) since April-May last year and India surprised the Chinese when its troops seized the strategic heights at the lake’s southern bank in August last year, from where they dominated the Chinese.

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In the wake of receiving credible intelligence, the Border Security Force (BSF) and the Army have been put on high alert at the Line of Control (LoC) as there is a possibility that China could use Pakistan to trigger large-scale incursions, along the international border.

“We have specific inputs that Pakistan could try and foment trouble along the border. But we have taken adequate preventive measures and substantially increased our security presence along the Indo-Pak border,’’ a senior BSF official said.

India just made a series of strategic moves in the Ladakh sector and occupied around two dozen peaks on the southern banks of the Pangong Tso and Spanggur Gap. This move has stunned China which did not expect India would respond like this.

Even as meetings are being taken place between senior military officers of India and China, not to mention the just-concluded meeting between Defence Minister Rajnath Singh and his Chinese counterpart in Russia.

Intelligence report suggests, in order to divert the attention of Indian security forces, China could use Pakistan as a proxy to start an armed offensive along the LoC by violating the ceasefire line.

Government has sent nearly 100 companies or 10,000 personnel of paramilitary forces to the border area. Additional security companies that were deployed along the Chinese frontier are those that were recently pulled out of Jammu & Kashmir.

Both Indo Tibetian Border Police ( ITBP) and Sashastra Seema Bal (SSB) have heightened up security deployment in the Doklam region in Sikkim and Kalapani region in Uttarakhand following increased Chinese activity noticed in these sectors.

Chief of Defence Staff (CDS) Gen Bipin Rawat had on Thursday warned Pakistan of any misadventure and said, “Pakistani Army would suffer heavy losses if it attempted any misadventure.”

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