India-China border face-offs test Modi six years after deadly clash

New Delhi, India — India’s armed forces are locked in multiple ongoing face-offs with the Chinese army along the border in the northeastern state of Arunachal Pradesh, the chief of India’s paramilitary border force guarding the Himalayan frontier with China has said. The remarks late last week by Shatrujeet Kapur, the director general of the Indo-Tibetan Border Police (ITBP) paramilitary force, come nearly four months after local civil society groups in the remote northeastern region told Al Jazeera that Chinese forces are increasingly encroaching on Indian territory and denied Indian troops access to patrolling points, angering locals.