Chinese chequers on the China border

China is re-settling Tibetan graziers in villages along the border. India cannot afford to leave its border residents to their fate

It is said that one can fool some of the people all the time; and all the people some of the time; but not all the people all the time. This adage has been proven correct on the Line of Actual Control (LAC) — the de facto boundary between India and China — where New Delhi has refused to acknowledge China’s military land-grab in April 2020 in at least seven spots in Eastern Ladakh. Notwithstanding the government’s insistence that all is well on the LAC, a highly credible section of local Ladakhis — the nomadic yak graziers who live along