What makes the Himalayan incursion a powerful symbol of China’s aggressive new stance in Asia is that its intruding troops have set up camp in an area that extends beyond the “line of actual control” (LAC) that China itself unilaterally drew when it defeated India in the 1962 Chinese-initiated border war. While China’s navy and a part of its air force focus on supporting revanchist territorial and maritime claims in the South and East China Seas, its army has been active in the mountainous borderlands with India, trying to alter the LAC bit by bit.
让喜马拉雅山入侵事件成为中国专横亚洲新立场的有力标志的是其闯入不对在“实际控制线”之外的地区扎营，这条实际控制线是中国在1962年由其发动的边境战争后单方面划定的。中国的海军和部分空军专注于支持其在南海和东海的报复性领土和领海主张，其陆军则活跃于中印边境的山区，试图一点一点改变实际控制线。