In a first of its kind admission, China’s state-run media Xinhua acknowledged Chinese President Xi Jinping’s ‘personal’ intervention in the India-China border conflict, admitting that it was Xi who had undertaken ‘strategic and tactical planning’ over the LAC border conflict. In a lengthy profile titled ‘Xi Jinping, the man who leads CPC on new journey’, Xinhua credited the Chinese President for ‘finding solutions’ to China-India conflict, saying that he ‘spearheaded’ planning to manoeuvre the border standoff, amongst other issues like the so-called South China Sea arbitration.
The report by the Chinese government mouthpiece reads, “From conducting regular patrols in the waters of Diaoyu Islands, fending off the so-called South China Sea arbitration, finding solutions to China-India border conflicts, to facilitating the return of Chinese people illegally detained overseas, Xi has spearheaded strategic and tactical planning and, if necessary, personally intervened.”Read More…
