India Is on a Himalayan Building Spree to Prepare for a Clash With China; #The_Wall_Street_Journal

India is spending hundreds of millions of dollars to build roads, tunnels and landing strips throughout the Himalayas, as it prepares for a possible future clash with its longtime nemesis China.

India’s bloody border clash with China in 2020, which killed soldiers on both sides, exposed an alarming vulnerability along the disputed 2,200-mile border, a vague demarcation line known as the Line of Actual Control. While China has for decades built up a vast network of railways and roads along its border regions, India has done little to build the infrastructure its military would need to traverse its own mountainous border areas.