India-China China attempted to seize control of LAC by force: US NSA Robert O'Brien
Washington: US National Security Advisor Robert O'Brien has said China has attempted to "seize" control of the Line of Actual Control (LAC) with India by force.
He said it was part of Beijing's aggressive stance taken in recent times.
"The CCP's [Chinese Communist Party] territorial aggression is also apparent on its Indian border where China has attempted to seize control of the Line of Actual Control by force," US NSA Robert O'Brien said in a remark on China early this week in Utah as quoted by India Today.
"Beijing's signature international development programme, One Belt One Road (OBOR), involves impoverished companies taking on opaque and unsustainable Chinese loans to pay Chinese firms employing Chinese labourers to build their infrastructure," he said.
"And now these countries' dependence on the Chinese debt leaves their sovereignty eroded and with no choice but to hue to the party's line on UN votes or any other issue that the Chinese Communist Party considers a red line," Robert O'Brien was quoted as saying by India Today.
He said time has come to understand that dialogue and agreements will not persuade or compel China to change.
"There's nothing to be gained from looking the other way or turning the other cheek. We've been doing that for too long," he said.
He made the comment at a time when the relationship between India and China has touched a new low.
India and China have been engaged into border standoff along the Line of Actual Control (LAC) in eastern Ladakh since early May.
In a deadly clash in 40 years, at least 20 Indian personnel were martyred at Galwan Valley in eastern Ladakh on Jun 15 night.
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