US House of Representatives slammed China’s aggression against India in Ladakh
Washington:
The United States House of Representatives unanimously passed an amendment to the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), criticizing China’s aggression against India in Ladakh’s Galwan Valley and its growing territorial assertion in and around disputed areas like the South China Sea.
The NDAA amendment, proposed by Congressman Steve Chabot with Indo-American lawmaker Ami Bera and passed on Monday, said India and China should work to de-escalate the situation along the line of real control. .
Troops from India and China have been at a stalemate in several areas along the line of effective control in eastern Ladakh since May 5. The situation deteriorated last month following clashes in the Galwan Valley which left 20 Indian army dead.
Passed unanimously by the House of Representatives with many other amendments, it declared that the expansion and aggression of the People’s Republic of China in and around territories such as the Line of Effective Control, the China Sea southern, Senkaku Islands, is of significant concern.
The bipartisan amendment declares the opposition of the US Congress to Chinese aggression against India in the Galwan Valley on the line of real control, and expresses concern over China’s growing territorial assertion. China has used the distraction of the coronavirus to attempt to take over territory belonging to India, as well as to assert its territorial claims in the South China Sea, he said.
China claims almost all of the 1.3 million square kilometers of the South China Sea as its territory. China has built military bases on man-made islands in the region which is also claimed by Brunei, Malaysia, the Philippines, Taiwan and Vietnam.
China has hampered commercial activities such as fishing or mining exploration by countries like Vietnam and the Philippines.
Ties between China and Japan have been strained by a territorial dispute over a group of islands in the East China Sea, known as the Senkaku Islands in Japan and the Diaoyu Islands in China.
“India is a democratic and critical partner in the Indo-Pacific,” Congressman Chabot said in a statement after the House passed the NDAA amendment.
“I am a strong supporter of our bilateral relations and stand alongside India and all of our partners in the region as they confront China’s hostile acts of aggression,” he said. declared.
“I am proud to be joined by Congressman Ami Bera, Chairman of the Asia, Pacific and Non-Proliferation Subcommittee, to bring this important amendment to the debate in a bipartisan manner,” he said. he adds.
The Chabot amendment said that in the months leading up to June 15, along the line of effective control, China would have assembled 5,000 troops; and would have entered a territory considered to be colonized as part of India under the 1962 truce.
China and India have reached an agreement to de-escalate and disengage along the line of actual control, the Chabot Amendment said, adding that on June 15, at least 20 Indian soldiers and an unconfirmed number of soldiers. Chinese were killed in skirmishes after a week. – a long stalemate in eastern Ladakh, which is the de facto border between the two countries.
Following the deadly violence, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said: “Whenever there have been differences of opinion, we have always tried to ensure that these differences never turn into a dispute,” says the amendment.
Another bipartisan amendment proposed by US-Indian Congressman Raja Krishnamoorthi along with eight others urging Beijing to defuse the situation at the real line of control through existing diplomatic mechanisms and not by force is expected to come up for a vote before the House today.
The two resolutions come days after the House of Representatives caucus on India and Indo-Americans in a letter to Indian Ambassador to the United States Taranjit Singh Sandhu said that in In recent months, Chinese authorities have acted with impunity and attempted to transgress the LAC, which resulted in diplomatic talks to implement a de-escalation process along the LAC on July 6.
It was led by Congressmen Holding and Brad Sherman and signed by seven other lawmakers.
“I hope they will reduce their armaments and excessive infrastructure to the real line of control and respect their long-standing agreements and the new founded agreements with India,” said the lawmakers who offered their condolences to the families of the fallen soldiers.
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