Talk:Tianwendian

Property insurance on the road

Surprisingly, the government bought property insurance on the road between Tianwendian and the G219 highway. Here (in Chinese) is the briefing by the insurance company on how they sent a team of adjusters to survey the damage. --Voidvector (talk) 16:06, 15 January 2020 (UTC)

1959?

Chinese claim lines

Voidvector, the issue of when this post was constructed came up for discussion somewhere. Does the source here actually say it? Is it authentic information? Do you have a WP:HISTRS for it? -- Kautilya3 (talk) 16:39, 27 May 2021 (UTC)

I am also not confident that the source is Xinhua news. The story says the photographs are from a Xinhua photojournalist. -- Kautilya3 (talk) 18:48, 27 May 2021 (UTC)

Kautilya3 Here is an alternative source -- People.cn, which says source is "PLA Daily". Still semi-propaganda source, but I don't think this is contentious enough in 1994 for them to lie about it, but what do I know. --Voidvector (talk) 22:36, 7 November 2021 (UTC)

Voidvector, thanks for digging further. It took me a while to remember why I quizzed it. This place was beyond the border claimed by China in 1959. (See the green line in the map here.) It was only after the Nehru-Zhou summit in 1960 failed that they upped the ante. There is plenty of revisionism in their narratives, explained in the section on LAC of 1959.

I will revise the text a bit to make it less certain than it sounds. -- Kautilya3 (talk) 23:24, 7 November 2021 (UTC)

Also noting here that the Indian intelligence chief has written, "The Chinese did not come into Depsang Plains till October, 1960". The Chip Chap River page gives the date of September 1961 for the construction of a post in the valley. -- Kautilya3 (talk) 11:40, 8 November 2021 (UTC)

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