India accuses China of ‘kidnapping’ its citizens at border
Al JazeeraIndian army has alerted China of claims that five men were abducted by the PLA from the state of Arunachal Pradesh. The five missing men are from the Indian state of Arunachal Pradesh, a strategically important area also claimed by China, which calls it South Tibet, and the Indian Army said it told China’s People’s Liberation Army about them on Saturday. Decades-old border tensions The alleged incident comes amid talks between India’s Defence Minister Rajnath Singh and his Chinese counterpart General Wei Fenghe on the sidelines of an international meeting in Moscow. Separately, a Tibetan member of an Indian special forces unit who died days ago in a mine blast near the site of a border flare-up with Chinese troops was cremated on Monday. In a tweet that has since been deleted, Madhav acknowledged the participation of the covert Tibetan group in the border skirmish and dubbed the India-China border as the “India-Tibet border”, possibly indicating what many foreign policy experts say would be a major shift in India’s foreign policy on China.