This sort of verbal trickery to hide a strategic objective has been seen before. Indeed, some years back, a planned visit to Indian Ladakh by the PLA’s commander of the Lanzhou Military Region was canceled on the grounds that Pakistan had protested – implying that Pakistan had a legitimate claim to the area.
尽管印度历史上一直对该地区拥有主权，但中国却将该地区定义为“争议地区”，并将该定义扩展到整个查谟和克什米尔地区。这种用文字游戏来掩盖战略目标的把戏在从前也曾出现过。事实上就在数年之前，人民解放军兰州军区高级官员计划对拉达克地区的访问就遭到取消，因为巴基斯坦方面表示反对——暗示巴方对该地区享有合法主权。