Citations:Demchok

English citations of Demchok

Map including Demchok (DMA, 1980)

A map which shows Demchok (near the center).

• 1964, Alastair Lamb, The China-India Border‎^[1], Oxford University Press, →OCLC, page 7:

  In this sector there are really two quite distinct disputes. The first is the issue of Aksai Chin, the desolate high wastes of the extreme north-east of Kashmir, across which the Chinese have built a motor road linking western Tibet with Sinkiang....The bulk of the contested area lies in the Aksai Chin region. South of the Panggong lake there are a number of contested points, near Chushul and at Demchok on the Indus for example. The Changchenmo serves as a connecting region between the Chinese claims in Aksai Chin and those south of Panggong lake.

• 2014 September 26, Hari Kumar, “India and China Step Back From Standoff in Kashmir”, in The New York Times‎^[2], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2014-09-27, Asia Pacific‎^[3]:

  The present dispute began when workers on the Indian side began constructing a canal at the “line of actual control” in the village of Demchok. Chinese civilians began to protest, carrying flags and banners and shouting slogans, and the People’s Liberation Army supported them. Simrandeep Singh, Ladakh’s top civil servant, insisted that the canal was meant for civilian purposes, but construction was halted.

• 2021 December 22, Shams Irfan, Gerry Shih, “On volatile border between India and China, a high-altitude military buildup is underway”, in The Washington Post‎^[4], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 22 December 2021, Asia‎^[5]:

  India needs to firm up its border by building infrastructure not only for its military but for its civilians, said Sonam Tsering, a former village councilor from Chushul, which overlooks a lake where new structures housing Chinese troops have materialized over the past year.
  Nearby Demchok village, which didn’t have electricity a decade ago, got its first cell tower only in November, Tsering said. Basic roads are still lacking in the region, and many residents are moving away because of poor living conditions, a trend that erodes India’s territorial claims, he added. Last month, a village leader wrote a letter to India’s defense minister pleading for reliable electricity, basic hospitals and roads, and 4G cell towers for nine villages without service.
  “The Chinese villages across the Indus River have had multiple cell towers for the last 15 years, with cable TV, electricity lines, big concrete houses, wide, paved roads,” Tsering said. “China gives citizens incentives to live in these forward villages because they know civilians living there are the first line of defense.”