China’s Incursion Into Indian Territory Continues: Beijing Silently Builts Road In Shaksgam Valley, Satellite Images Reveal | World News
New Delhi: China has expanded a road network in the depths of the Shaksgam Valley, a region where India has continued as a part of the ruling territory of India. The new satellite images reveal new activity in this high altitude area just beyond the Siachen glacier in Northern Ladakh. The Valley has been under Chinese control since 1963, when Pakistan has delivered with an agreement that India never knew.
Shaksam is deeply strategic importance. In 1984, India emphasized the risks in this region of Himalayas, launched the Meghdot Operation to have control over the nearby Siachen region.
China’s latest infrastructure move, which was identified by the open -source intelligence analyst Nathan Ruser and approved by researcher Nethra Desai, shows an extension of a road that cuts the rugged land. This new stretch is connected to China’s G219 highway, known as Aksai Chin Road, and passes through AGHİL Pass, which marks the division between Ladakh and Xinjiang.
BREAKING:
In the midst of a dissolution in the relations of China-India, China completed a new road section with a traditional border crossing, ie Shaxgam transition and thus completed a road cycle. China has a two -way entrance to the Shaksgam Valley now
Overview of new developments attached
(1/8) pic.twitter.com/nvnkam3uz4– Nature Desai (@natiredesai) 28 July 2025
In 2024, Desai, who previously marked the signs of construction, shared updated satellite images that follow the road deeper to the valley. This new route shows an calculated initiative to consolidate China’s logistics access to this controversial region.
Legal and historical dispute
The region was initially part of Jammu and Kashmir’s prince. In March 1963, months after the Indian-China War, Pakistan signed a border agreement with Beijing and transferred the Shaksgam Valley to China. India described this movement as illegal from the very beginning. The new Delhi never accepted this transfer and continues to claim that Shaksgam is a part of the Indian territory.
India’s official position has been re -confirmed many times. In July 2024, Foreign Ministry spokesman Randhir Jaiswal repeated India’s stance: “The Shaksgam Valley is part of India. We do not recognize the Chinese-Pakistan border agreement in 1963.
Meanwhile, Pakistan benefited from controlled areas, including Pakistan occupied Kashmir (POK) to deepen its strategic ties with China. The delivery of Shaksgam was part of a wider effort to strengthen China’s position in the region.
Over the years, both countries have increased their cooperation on military logistics and cross -border infrastructure.
Journalist Tom Hussain’s 2024 report in South China Morning Post pointed out China’s plans to build new terrain routes through Gilgit-Baltistan. The report said that the target was to improve ground access to joint operations against Ladakh and Indian positions in Kashmir.
Aksai Chin, Pok and now Chinese infrastructure projects in the Shaksgam Valley reflect a pattern: to reinforce military and logistics control over controversial border areas.
India continues to monitor these developments closely, not only as a violation of regional sovereignty, but also as long -term movements aimed at changing the reality of space on the real control line.
