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- Occasional Papers
- Feb 12 2018
Reports of incursions by the Chinese People's Liberation Army along the Line-of-Actual Control (LAC) are rife in the Indian media. A commonly held opinion is that the Indian media tend to sensationalise their reportage of these incursions, or "China's transgressions", as the Indian government calls them. This paper analyses these incidents, as reported in select Indian newspapers, over a period of 12 years. It outlines the nature of these border activities to draw meaningful inferences on Sino-Indian border management. The paper concludes with specific policy recommendations.
The border between India and China is not clearly demarcated throughout. Along certain stretches of its 3,488-km length, there is no mutually agreed Line of Actual Control (LAC).[1] India, following Independence, believed it had inherited firm boundaries from the British, but this was contrary to China's view. China felt the British had left behind a disputed legacy on the boundary between the two newly formed republics.
The India-China border is divided into three sectors, viz. Western, Middle and Eastern. The boundary dispute in the Western Sector pertains to the Johnson Line proposed by the British in the 1860s that extended up to the Kunlun Mountains and put Aksai Chin in the then princely state of Jammu and Kashmir. Independent India used the Johnson Line and claimed Aksai Chin as its own. China initially did not demur when India said so in the early 1950s; however, in the years that followed it reversed its position and stated that it had never acceded to the Johnson Line and therefore did not see why it should cede Aksai Chin to India.[2] In the Middle Sector, the dispute is a minor one. It is the only one where India and China have exchanged maps on which they broadly agree. The disputed boundary in the Eastern Sector of the India-China border is over the MacMahon Line. Representatives of China, India and Tibet in 1913-14 met in Shimla, where an agreement was proposed to settle the boundary between Tibet and India, and Tibet and China. Though the Chinese representatives at the meeting initialled the agreement, they subsequently refused to accept it. The Tawang tract claimed by China was taken over by India in 1951.[3] Till the 1960s, China controlled Aksai Chin in the West while India controlled the boundary up to the McMahon Line in the East.
Nearly six decades have passed since then, but the border issue remains unresolved. It has turned into one of the most protracted border disputes in the world. Since 1981, when the first round of border talks was held, officials from India and China have met a number of times to find a solution to the issue.[4]
The two countries are also engaged in Confidence Building Measures (CBMs) on the border with bilateral agreements signed in 1993, 1996, 2005, 2012 and 2013. By the beginning of the 21st century, the two sides had agreed not to let the border dispute affect bilateral engagements. This was inked into the Agreement on Political Parameters and Guiding Principles for the Settlement of the India-China Boundary Question signed in 2005. During Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee's visit to China in 2003, the two sides agreed on the appointment of special representatives for consultations aimed at arriving at a framework for a boundary settlement that would provide the basis for the delineation and demarcation of the border.
Despite two decades of CBMs and the thaw in bilateral relations, incidents on the border, known as "incursions", "intrusions" or "violations" continue to be reported in the Indian media.[5] The terms, "incursion", "intrusion" and "violation" are sometimes used interchangeably in Indian English-language newspapers to refer to Chinese actions in disputed areas of the LAC. The Indian government, denying that there have been Chinese intrusions along the LAC since 2010, prefers to call them "transgressions".[6]
Although denial and underplaying of incidents on the Sino-Indian border was the general trend, at least on one occasion, the Indian government admitted the Chinese People's Liberation Army's (PLA) intrusion into Indian territory. The PLA reportedly entered 10 km inside the Indian territory in eastern Ladakh and set up a platoon-sized camp on 15 April 2013.[7] The incident preceded Chinese Premier Li Keqiang's state visit to India on 19 May 2013.[8] The April 2013 episode was not an innocent transgression; it was, by the Indian government's own definition, an intrusion—an intentional and provocative breach of the LAC.[9]
Definition of Terms and Scope of Study
The Merriam Webster dictionary defines an "incursion" as "hostile entrance into a territory", while the word "intrusion" refers to "the act of wrongfully entering upon, seizing, or taking possession of the property of another", and "violation" means "disturbance" or "interruption".[10] Thus, the terms "incursion" and "intrusion" have related meanings but the word "violation" has a different one. Another word for "violation" is "transgression."[11] In this paper, all these will be referred to as "incidents". The term "incident" refers to the occurrence of an action or situation that is a separate unit of experience.[12] 'Incident' can also be defined as "an action likely to lead to grave consequences especially in diplomatic matters, a serious border incident".[13] Activities can be defined as "actions of a particular kind".
This paper describes and analyses incidents and activities along the India-China border reported in select Indian national newspapers, to understand Sino-Indian relations in general, and border issues in particular. It is as much a study of the incidents as of the media. It attempts to draw inferences on the nature of the incidents and activities on the border, strictly based on news items in three newspapers: The Times of India (ToI), The Hindu (TH) and The Indian Express (IE). It covers the period from 01 January 2003 to 31 December 2014. It starts from 2003 because that was the year India and China signed the 'Declaration on Principles for Relations and Comprehensive Cooperation', and decided to appoint Special Representatives to explore the framework of a boundary settlement from a political perspective. It ends in 2014, a year of political transition for India, when after a decade of Congress-led United Progressive Alliance (UPA) government, the opposition National Democratic Alliance (NDA) was elected at the Centre, with Narendra Modi becoming the 14th prime minister of India. ToI and TH are the largest selling English-language newspapers in India, while IE is a nationally reputed English language newspaper.[14] The e-editions of three English language newspapers, ToI, TH and IE were used for this paper.
The paper is divided into three sections. The first discusses the nature of incidents occurring on the India-China border in terms of their number, sector of occurrence, type, duration, and their impact. The second deals with responses to border incidents. The third discusses activities on the border.
A total of 68 incidents were reported in the three newspapers: 27 incidents in ToI, 22 in IE, and 19 in TH. However, the same incident may have been reported twice or multiple times and so to get the actual number of incidents it was necessary to list separately all unique incidents. Table 1 lists the total number of incidents reported and the number which were unique.
Table 1 Number of Incidents Reported and the Unique Incidents by Year and Newspaper
|Number of Incident Reports
|Number of Unique Incidents
|The Times of India
|The Indian Express
|The Hindu
By comparing the incidents reported in the three newspapers and singling out unique incidents, 30 such were found. Thus, 30 incidents will be the unit of analysis. Spread across 12 years, they average only 2.5 incidents per year. Interestingly, the incidents double between each of the three-year periods, from two in 2003-2005 to four in 2006-2008 to eight in 2009-2011 to 16 in 2012-2014. There was also a four-fold increase in the number of incidents from six between 2003 and 2008 to 24 between 2009 and 2014.
A distinction needs to be made between the incidents reported and the reports of government officials giving figures of incidents on the Sino-Indian border. A ToI report said Union Minister of State for Home Affairs, Kiren Rijiju, told the Rajya Sabha that as many as 334 cases of transgressions by China had taken place in 2014 until August 4, as compared to 411 in the whole of 2013, 426 in 2012, 213 in 2011 and 228 in 2010.[15] For the corresponding years, the number of incidents reported in the newspapers consulted was nine in 2013, four in 2012, two in 2011 and three in 2010. News reports quoting officials also suggested that the number of incursions was 270 in 2008.[16] But only three incidents were reported in the entire period between 2006 and 2008.
The above distinction is made to show the vast inconsistency between the figures of incidents reported in the three newspapers and the number quoted by government officials in the same set of newspapers.
Table 2: Number of Unique Incidents by Year and Sector of Occurrence
Of the total of 30 incidents, the Western Sector saw 19, the Middle three and the Eastern, eight. Thus more than two-thirds of the incidents were reported from the Western Sector. The percentage distribution of the incidents by sector was 63.33 in the Western Sector, 26.67 in the Eastern Sector and 13.33 in the Middle sector.
For the years between 2003 and 2008, four incidents out of the total of six were reported in the Eastern Sector.
Figure 1: Number of Unique Incidents by Year and Sector
Most of the incidents reported in the Western Sector were on the disputed Ladakh-Tibet Autonomous Region boundary. This more than 1,600-km-long sector has two distinct disputes: first, the issue of Aksai Chin, and second, of the Ladakh-Tibet Autonomous Region boundary from Changchenmo Valley (north of Pangong Lake) to the region of Spiti in Himachal Pradesh.[17]
For instance, in 2013, when seven incidents were reported in the Western Sector, six took place along the Ladakh-Tibet Autonomous region boundary. The only exception was an incident in the Daulat Beg Oldi sector in the Aksai Chin region. The places in the Western Sector where the six incidents were reported from were in Siri Jap on 17 May, three separate incidents in Chumar on 17 June, 16 July and 20 July, in Chusul in the last week of July, and in Demchok on 18 August.
Figure 2 Incidents in the Western Sector in 2013
The five incidents reported in the Western Sector of the border in 2013 had a geographical spread across the entire Ladakh-Tibet Autonomous region boundary. Incidents covered the span ranging from the northernmost end of the Indian border in Ladakh at Daulat Beg Oldi to its southernmost end at Chumar (Figure 2).
The maximum number of incidents reported in the Middle Sector in a single year was three in 2012. These three were the only ones during the entire period of 2003 to 2014 in this sector (Table 2). All were aerial incidents that occurred over the state of Himachal Pradesh. A report in IE said that the then Chief Minister of the state, Prem Kumar Dhumal, informed the Centre about the violations by Chinese helicopters entering Indian airspace along the international border on 16 March.[18]
Both IE and ToI quoted former Uttarakhand Chief Minister Vijay Bahuguna claiming that, between 2006 and 2011, at least 37 incursions by Chinese forces occurred along the 350 km border that Uttarakhand shares with China.[19] According to Bahuguna, there were six incursions in 2006, two in 2007, 10 in 2008, 11 in 2009, five in 2010 and three in 2011.In contrast, for the corresponding period (2006-2011) there were no incidents reported in the newspapers in the Middle Sector.
In the Eastern Sector, there were only two incidents between 2007 and 2012. The two incidents ascribed to the 2006-08 period in Table 2 both belong to 2006, while the two included in the 2012-14 period took place in 2013 – one on the Arunachal Pradesh border and the other on Sikkim's. Up to 2007, the only two incidents reported were in the Eastern Sector, the two in the Western Sector – according to Table 2 – occurring in 2008.
Of the four incidents in the Eastern Sector before 2008, two were in 2007 and one each in 2003 and 2005. The two incidents of 2007 occurred in the Thagla Ridge area of Arunachal Pradesh and in Sikkim. Both the incidents of 2003 and 2005 were in the Asafila area of Arunachal Pradesh. The incident of 2003 coincided with former Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee's visit to Beijing in June.[20] Chinese troops reportedly intruded into Asaphila again in May 2005, keeping the Eastern Sector in the focus of the boundary discourse. The 2005 incident too happened shortly after former Chinese Prime Minister Wen Jiabao's visit to India.
Type of Incidents
The table below indicates whether the incidents were reported to have taken place on the ground or in the air.
Table 3: Type of Incidents
Incidents on the ground by far outnumbered aerial incidents, numbering 24 to six aerial ones. All three incidents in the Middle Sector were aerial incidents. While three aerial incidents were reported in the Western Sector, no aerial incidents were found in the Eastern Sector. The highest number of aerial incidents occurred in the period 2012-2014, and all three of them were in the Middle Sector, over the state of Himachal Pradesh. Chinese helicopters were reported to have entered Indian airspace near Kaurik and Lapcha areas in the tribal districts of Kinnaur and Lahaul Spiti on 16 March and 19 March. Nothing is known about the third incident except its mention by Indo-Tibetan Border Police Inspector General, M.S. Bhurji as reported by TH.[21]
Figure 3: Type of Incident according to Sector
Though details of very few aerial incidents were reported in newspapers (six for the entire period), according to a TH report, former Union Defence Minister, A.K. Anthony told Parliament that there were 28 aerial violations by China along the LAC between January 2010 and July 2013.[22]
Both the 1993 Agreement on Peace and Tranquillity along the LAC on the India-China Border Areas, and the 1996 Agreement between India and China on CBMs on the India-China Border Areas talk about measures to prevent air intrusions along the LAC. Article V of the 1996 Agreement particularly says combat aircrafts cannot fly within 10 km of the LAC. This article only allows "unarmed transport aircraft, survey aircraft and helicopters" to fly up to one km short of the LAC.[23] The cases of aerial incidents reported in 2012 in Himachal Pradesh were of Chinese helicopters entering Indian airspace. It is possible that the helicopters referred to were unarmed, and since helicopters can fly up to the LAC, they might have unintentionally crossed the LAC. No combat aircraft were reported to have crossed the LAC.
Duration of Incidents
Incidents on the India-China border were found to have lasted for varied durations, ranging from a few minutes to a maximum of three weeks. Accordingly, the duration of incidents are categorised into 'not more than a day', 'between two to seven days', or 'more than seven days'. There is also a category for incidents whose duration was not mentioned in the report.
Table 4: Duration of Incidents
|Not more than one day
|Between two and seven days
|More than seven days
Table 4 shows that the maximum number of incidents lasted not more than a day: 18 out of 30 of them, or 60 percent. The duration remained unknown for nine, or 30 percent of the incidents. Only one lasted between two and seven days, or 3.33 percent, and two incidents, or 6.67 percent, for more than seven days.
The two incidents that lasted for more than seven days were in the Western Sector. The lone incident that lasted between two and seven days was in the Eastern Sector. For all the incidents in the Middle Sector the duration was unknown.
Figure 4: Number of Incidents according to Duration
The lone incident that lasted between two to seven days was in 2013. It was reported that the Chinese entered 20 km into Indian territory in the Changlagam area of Arunachal Pradesh on 11 August and stayed there for about four days.[24] This intrusion was detected on August 13 by the Indian troops which asked the Chinese to go back. Only two incidents were found to have lasted for more than seven days. These were the three-week standoff in Daulat Beg Oldi, near Aksai Chin in April-May 2013, and the week-long faceoff in Ladakh's Chumar region in September 2013.
The distribution of incidents according to their duration indicates that the Chinese PLA, on crossing over to the Indian side of the LAC, remained only till the Indian army detected the anomaly and asked the Chinese to withdraw from the Indian side. The lone incident of Chinese intrusion that continued between two and seven days was due to the delay in detection of the intrusion by the Indian Army. The Daulat Beg Oldi incident in April-May 2013 that lasted three weeks signalled a new activism on the border issue by China.[25] Chinese President Xi Jinping on 29 March 2013, before the Daulat Beg Oldi incident, had made a statement in Durban, South Africa, that the border issue between China and India should be resolved "as soon as possible". If the Chinese action on the ground at Daulat Beg Oldi is taken in conjunction with President Xi Jinping's statement in Durban, it is clear that China was signalling a new activism in its border dispute with India. This also becomes evident from Beijing's official statements during two of the three week-long military action.[26]
Table 5: Number of Incidents by Quarter
It was found that the maximum number of incidents (17) took place in the months between July and September (Table 5). The month of July reported the highest number. Five incidents each were reported in August and September.
Figure 6: Quarter-wise Number of Incidents
It was found that increase and decrease in the number of incidents at any given time in the year depended upon weather conditions. A maximum number of 17 incidents took place in the months between July and September out of which 13 were in the Western Sector and the remaining four in the Eastern sector (Table 5). Both the incidents in the Middle Sector were between October and December. January to March recorded no incidents in the Middle and Eastern Sectors. In the Western Sector, it was between October and December that the least number of incidents occurred.
The impact of an incident can be divided into two categories, depending on whether or not any damage to property was reported in the newspapers. Property refers to any construction, installation or defence apparatus that lies within Indian territory.
Table 6 Impact of Incidents
|Property Damage
|No Property Damage
Figure 7 Impact of incidents
In most of the incidents discussed in the newspapers, no damage to property was reported. Of 30 incidents, there was no damage inflicted in 25. Three of these five incidents resulting in property damage were in the Eastern Sector and two in the Western Sector. Thus, incidents that reported physical damage seemed to be sporadic ones.
In a single year (2011), IE reported two incidents that caused property damage. It said that the Chinese damaged a 60-metre-high wall 250 meters inside Indian territory in the Yangste area in Arunachal Pradesh.[27] The second incident reported in IE was that of the PLA troops intruding into the Chumar sector in Ladakh and smashing some bunkers, apart from cutting the wires of some cameras installed at the Indian border post.[28]This was also reported in TH and ToI. [29]
In 2013, a PLA patrol in Chumar sector in Southern Ladakh took away a camera placed on the ground about six km ahead of an Indian army post. India is said to have raised the issue of the camera at the border personnel meeting, afterwhich it was returned.[30]
Response to Incidents
The responses discussed include both official statements as well as on-ground reactions to incidents on the border. It was found that responses varied depending on whether they were from the local army unit or from New Delhi. Sometimes no specific response to incidents was found reported.
Some responses began as local and shifted to New Delhi because they could not be resolved locally. Only rarely did an incident reach a level of significance that demanded a response from the defence ministry or the external affairs ministry. It is significant that on many occasions, though the English-language press reported an incident, there was no response from either local or central authorities.
Table No. 7 Response to Incidents
|New Delhi
|Not known
Figure 8: Incident Responses
From news reports it is evident that most responses to incidents came from the local army unit which New Delhi probably considered adequate. Responses to 19 incidents out of a total of 30 incidents (i.e. 63.33 percent) were from the local level (Table 6). Only in two cases (6.67 percent), the response was from New Delhi. Responses to nine incidents (30 percent) are not known.
Another kind of local response was the increase or decrease in patrolling by the Indian forces. An incident of decrease of patrols by Indian forces was reported in the last week of July 2013. In the said incident, an Indian army patrol, Tiranga, originating from the Trade Junction area in Leh of the Western Sector was intercepted by the PLA. The latter, mounted on heavy vehicles showing banners that this was Chinese territory, stopped the Indian patrol from proceeding further.[34] Reports of the incident also mentioned that the PLA erected an observation post to keep watch on Indian troops and monitor Indian patrol movement. When the Indian patrol was about to leave anyway, the Chinese intercepted it midway and sent it back. That year Indian forward bases launched a 'vigil' 21 times but could only complete them twice.
The two incidents that saw New Delhi respond were first, the three-week standoff in Daulat Beg Oldi, near Aksai Chin in April-May 2013, and second, the September 2014 faceoff in Ladakh's Chumar region. Both were in the Western Sector. A platoon-strength contingent of Chinese PLA came 10 km inside Indian territory in the Burtse sector's Daulat Beg Oldi area on the night of 15 April 2013 and set up a tented post there.[35] The Indo-Tibetan Border Police (ITBP) jawans also established a post 300 meters from the Chinese tent and asked the latter for a flag meeting.
After the failure of the flag meetings to end the impasse, India sent an army contingent to the site.[36] Indian Foreign Secretary, Ranjan Mathai, summoned the Chinese Ambassador to India, Wei Wei, in the third week of April and stressed the need for an early resolution of the issue.[37]
The standoff in Daulat Beg Oldi continued till 29 April 2013, when a report said that China had erected an additional tent in the area, taking the number of such structures to five.[38] The additional tent by China was pitched after three flag meetings failed. On 5 May, the border standoff was said to have finally ended.[39] The resolution was reported to have been reached diplomatically after then National Security Advisor Shivshankar Menon, and then Indian Ambassador to China, S. Jaishankar, held consultations with their Chinese counterparts.
The second incident was a faceoff between the troops of both sides on the very day, 18 September 2014, when Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Chinese President Xi Jinping were holding talks in New Delhi.[40] A total of 1,000 troops were reported to have moved inside the LAC in Ladakh's Chumar region in the Western Sector, leading to a faceoff. Prime Minister Modi, during the joint press conference between the two leaders, expressed concern over the incident.
The standoff continued till 26 September, when Indian External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj met Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi and discussed the matter with him on the sidelines of the UN conference in New York.[41] A few hours after the meeting, Chinese troops camping along the border withdrew. China said on 30 September that the frontier forces of the two countries had decided to withdraw simultaneously.
The Border Defence Cooperation Agreement (BDCA) signed by the two countries in 2013 was aimed at preventing incidents involving tailing of patrols, and generally streamlining channels of communication in case of a faceoff. A five-layer mechanism for communication between the two sides was agreed upon: first, flag meetings between border personnel on the LAC; second, meetings between senior officers of China's Military Regions and India's Army Commands; third, periodic meetings at the ministry level; fourth, meetings of the Working Mechanism (set up in 2013); and fifth, the apex India-China Annual Defence Dialogue. The agreement also provisioned for both sides establishing military hotlines between their armed forces. The Agreement between India and China on the Establishment of a Working Mechanism for Consultation and Coordination on India-China Border Affairs was also signed in 2012, a year prior to the signing of the BDCA. This agreement provisioned for a mechanism for strengthening exchanges and cooperation between military personnel and administrative bodies in respective areas.
Despite the agreements reached in consecutive years, the 2014 face-off in Chumar indicates the vulnerability of the CBMs in the absence of a clear roadmap for resolution of the border question. In the period that followed the signing of the 2005 agreement, China, at least on a couple of occasions, contravened certain key articles in it. The former Chinese Ambassador to India, Sun Yuxi's assertion in 2006 that the whole of Arunachal Pradesh is Chinese territory was one such instance.[42]His comments were in conflict with Article VII of the 2005 Agreement on the Political Parameters and Guiding Principles for the Settlement of the India-China Boundary Question which agrees in principle, that interests of settled populations on both the sides would be kept in mind while finding a solution to the border conflict.[43]
Again, Beijing's emphasis on the Eastern sector for border negotiations made the pitch more queer. At the Seventh round of Special Representatives talks held in 2006, China insisted that the Eastern sector, including Tawang, remained the focal point in border negotiations.[44] This again contradicted Article III of the 2005 Agreement that had agreed upon a package settlement of the border question.[45]
China's attitude is unlikely to lead to an early settlement of the border issue, despite the completion of the technical work pertaining to it.[46]
Border Activities
Four types of border activities by both India and China were mentioned in the newspapers: deployment of defence apparatus, troop reinforcements, construction of rail and road links, and military exercises. Continuing the trend of incidents, border activities undertaken by China and India totalled 34, averaging just about 2.83 activities a year. Indian activities outnumbered Chinese and understandably so, considering reports in Indian newspapers were used as sources. Table 8 shows the number of activities, divided according to country of occurrence.
Table 8 Country-wise Number of Activities on the border
|Deployment of defence apparatus
|Reinforcement of troops
|Construction of Rail/Road Links
|Military Exercises
A total of 25 activities were found on the Indian side, whereas on the Chinese side only nine were reported in the newspapers looked at. Deployment of defence apparatus (17) outnumbered other activities on the border. Of the 17 such activities, 14 were undertaken by India and three by China. In case of reinforcement of troops, India engaged in six activities, while China had only one. There were an equal number of activities related to construction of rail/road links by both countries – four. One activity each by India and China were found of military exercises.
Figure 9 Activities on the Border Undertaken by India and China
Deployment of defence apparatus was highest among all activities undertaken by India. Among the four deployments of defence apparatus reported in 2009, the first was part of India's plan to restructure the ITBP by equipping it with modern weaponry, surveillance equipment and specialised vehicles.[47] India moved T-72 battle tanks and modern BMP troop carriers into the strategic 'Finger Area' in North Sikkim.[48] Formal induction of the Sukhoi Su-30 aircraft at the Tezpur Air Force station in Northern Assam close to the China border was another activity reported in 2009.[49] India was said to be boosting its defence capabilities along the China border with the induction of a series of 19 lightweight mountain radars and the strengthening of an advanced landing ground for possible fighter aircraft – this was the fourth activity on the border by India.[50]
In 2011, India's defence ministry sanctioned the deployment of the Brahmos missiles in Arunachal Pradesh.[51] From China's side, important activities included deployment of SU-27, SU-30, J-8 and J-10 aircraft at its airbases.[52]
Reports about India also included activities such as deployment of troops, missiles, tanks, guns and military aircraft close to the border, as well as suggestions that such deployment was part of an "affordable deterrence" posture by India against China.[53] The moving of T-72 battle tanks and modern BMP troop carriers into Northern Sikkim was said to be India's response to Chinese transgressions in the 'Finger Area' in Sikkim.[54]
Throughout the 1990s and early 2000s, India watched China add thousands of km of new road and rail links across Tibet, constructing an elaborate infrastructure connecting China's western frontier and its Han heartland.[55] Reports of building of capacities on the border continued to appear in the late 2000s. In 2006, China announced the building of a rail line from Lhasa to Xigaze, close to the Indian border.[56] A report in IE claimed that New Delhi was caught napping by Beijing's announcement that it was extending the Tibet rail line from Lhasa to Yadong, close to Nathu La in the strategic Chumbi valley on the Sino-Indian border.[57] Delhi had been dithering over proposals for rail links in Sikkim. Even so, any project undertaken by China to improve hinterland connectivity within its own sovereign territory cannot be challenged by India.
China was reported to have raised constructions along the international border in the Karakoram ranges in the Ladakh sector for the first time since the 1962 war with India.[58] Such construction could be used either for stationing additional personnel or mounting a camera to monitor Indian troop movement. Again in 2009, China was said to have been developing a railway line from Dali to Ruili on the China-Myanmar border and was planning to extend the Qinghai-Tibet railway line to connect Lhasa with Khasha on China-Nepal border.[59]
Construction of road links by India picked up in 2006, according to the newspaper reports, after its Cabinet Committee on Security, chaired by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, cleared the construction of 608 km of roads along the India-China border.[60]The report said India had come out of its "defensive mindset" of letting old roads fall into disuse and refraining from building new ones. (The earlier approach was fuelled by the apprehension that China could use those roads to make quick inroads in the event of a military assault.). In the same year, India also gave the go-ahead to an INR 6,000 crore project to build another two-lane all-weather road besides the existing one connecting Jammu to Srinagar.[61]India was reported to have reactivated a crucial airbase in Ladakh barely 20 km from the Chinese border. It also gave the green-light for construction of four strategic roads along the China border, which are expected to radically improve India's ability to induct troops and reinforcements promptly.
Work on rail links too moved forward in 2014 when India took up construction of four top priority strategic railway lines along the China border.[62] The 1,000 km of lines identified by the defence ministry were Missamari-Tawang (378 km) in Assam, ParashuramKund- Rupai (256 km) in Assam-Arunachal Pradesh and Bilaspur-Mandi-Manali-Leh (498 km) in Himachal Pradesh-Jammu and Kashmir.
There were two incidents relating to reinforcement of troops by India in 2011 and two again in 2013.In 2011, India decided to increase the number of troops posted on the border by 90,000 in the next five years.[63] The reinforcement was part of the defence ministry's INR 64,000 crore military modernisation plan and included two new divisions of mountain strike corps. The other such event of 2011 was the announcement by the ITBP that it would deploy more forces on the LAC by setting up 35 new outposts.
The 50,000 additional troops were finally added in 2013.[64] The only instance of reinforcement of troops by China was when the PLA in 2010 was said to have deployed an infantry battalion at the Kunjerab Pass on the Karakoram highway in August, for security of workers engaged in building a railroad that would connect Xinjiang to Gwadar port in Balochistan.[65] The troop deployments were all in conflict with Article III of the 1993 Agreement on the Maintenance of Peace and Tranquillity along the LAC in the India-China Border Areas which says, "Each side will keep its military forces in the areas along the line of actual control to a minimum level compatible with the friendly and good neighbourly relations between the two countries".[66] But while discussing this clause of the agreement, it must be noted that no numbers were mentioned in the 1993 agreement and what constituted the "minimum level" had remained undefined.
The only military exercises by India on the border were reported in 2012 when the 33 Corps under the Eastern Command carried out such exercises in India's northeastern region to check military preparedness.[67] The only report of military exercises by China was the occasion when the PLA is said to have carried out an integrated ground-air combat military drill involving J-11 fighter jets and armed helicopters on the Tibetan Plateau.[68] This was the fourth such exercise by the Chinese military in Tibet since March to test its capacities in the region.
On the basis of analysis of incidents and activities noted in this paper, some key characteristics of the Sino-Indian border can be identified. Unique Incidents reported (30) were far fewer than those attributed to statements made by government officials and quoted in the same newspapers. The maximum number of incidents was found in the Western Sector in general and the Ladakh-Tibet Autonomous Region Boundary area in particular. The Eastern Sector had the largest share of incidents in the initial period of the study from 2003 to 2008. Most aerial incidents reported in the Indian airspace were those of non-threatening digressions by Chinese helicopters. Except for the Daulat Beg Oldi and Chumar incidents that lasted for a length of time, most incidents ended within hours of being detected and taken up by Indian border representatives with their Chinese counterparts.
Most responses that came were in the form of banner drills which were in conformity with the Standard Operating Measures prepared after the signing of the CBMs between the two countries. The two border incidents that needed diplomatic intervention, and which occurred despite the CBMs show that without a roadmap for a solution of the border issue it is difficult to ensure that the two countries will adhere to CBMs. It was also found that both the Daulat Beg Oldi and Chumar incidents that needed New Delhi's intervention were timed around high-level state visits; Chinese Premier Le Keqiang's visit to India in case of Daulat Beg Oldi and President Xi Jinping's visit on the eve of Chumar.
Deployment of defence apparatus topped the list of activities on the Sino-Indian border. Activities of deployment of armaments on the border included tanks, surface-to-surface missiles and combat aircraft. This deployment was found to be in contravention of the CBMs, which had called for a reduction of such armaments. The year 2009 saw the maximum number of activities reported on the border. India's upgrading of border infrastructure was reported to be a response to rail and road networks around the border built by China. Improved border infrastructure has given China strategic leverage for easily mobilising troops and armaments from interior regions to border areas.
This paper makes the following recommendations:
- There was a major discrepancy between the number of incidents reported in the newspapers (30) between the years 2003 and 2014 and the number of incidents (1,612) from 2010 to June 4, 2014, provided by Union Minister of State for Home Affairs Kiren Rijiju. Neither does the government elaborate on the figures nor do the newspapers explain the discrepancy. There should be an explanation from the union government about this discrepancy. Citizens of India need to know how the figure of 1,612 was computed.
- The border dispute between India and China has dragged for more than six decades and it is in the interest of both sides that they come up with a position paper on the border issue.
- Given China's push for the Belt and Road Initiative, and given that its China Pakistan Economic Corridor project has already affected India's sovereignty claims in certain parts of Kashmir, it is incumbent upon India to bring the settlement of the India-China border issue to the forefront of its relationship with China.
Acknowledgement: The author is grateful to his project adviser, Rakhahari Chatterji, and two anonymous reviewers for their valuable suggestions on an early draft of this paper.
Mihir Bhonsale is a Junior Fellow at the Kolkata Centre of ORF, working with the Neighbourhood and Regional Studies Initiative. His primary research interest is India's East Asian and Southeast Asian neighbourhood. He has written articles on connectivity, the India-China border, and ethnicity in India's Northeast. He contributed to the Special Report, India's Connectivity with its Himalayan Neighbours: Possibilities and Challenges (New Delhi: ORF, 2017).
[1]"Management of the India-China Border, Ministry of Home Affairs," accessed May 3, 2017
[2] Shivshankar Menon, Choices: Inside the Making of India's Foreign Policy, (India: Penguin Random House, 2016)
[3] Mohan Guruswamy and ZorawarDaulet Singh, India-China Relations: The Border Issue and Beyond (New Delhi: Viva Books, 2009): 31.
[4] Till date, 19 rounds of border talks have been held between India and China. The last meeting between Special Representatives on the Border was held on 20 April 2017.
[5]"Fresh incursions across LAC," The Times of India, September 10, 2008 and The Times of India, "Chinese intrusions become frequent," May 11, 2010 and The Times of India, "China violated the Line of Actual Control 500 times in the last two years,," 17 May 2012.
[6]"No Chinese intrusion since 2010, only 'transgressions': Govt," The Times of India, August 20, 2014.
[7]"Chinese intrusion in Ladakh', ITBP asks for a flag meet," The Indian Express, April 20, 2013
[8]"Border tension escalates, Foreign Secretary summons Chinese envoy to lodge protest", The Indian Express, April 23, 2013
[9] Jeff M. Smith, Cold Peace: China-India Rivalry in the Twenty-First Century, (Maryland: Lexington Books, 2014).
[10]"Definition of Incursion, " Dictionary, Merriam Webster, accessed May 17, 2017. "Definition of Intrusion," Dictionary, Merriam Webster, accessed on May 17, 2017 https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/intrusion. "Synonyms and Antonyms of Violation", Thesaurus, Merriam Webster, accessed on 17 May 2017.
[11]"Synonyms and Antonyms of Violation", Thesaurus, Merriam Webster, accessed on 17 May 2017,
[12]"Definition of Incident", Dictionary, Merriam Webster, accessed on April 4, 2017.
[13]Ibid Merriam Webster, "Definition of incident."
[14]"Daily Newspapers", Details of most circulated publications for the audit period January - June 2013, Audit Bureau of Circulations, accessed on August 19, 2017, http://auditbureau.org/Top_Circulations.pdf.
[15]"No Chinese intrusion since 2010, only 'transgressions': Govt," The Times of India, August 20, 2014.
[16]"Chinese incursions into Indian territory rose sharply in 2008," The Times of India, June 9, 2009
[17] Smith, Cold Peace: China-India Rivalry in the Twenty-First Century, 24.
[18]"Chinese choppers in Indian airspace, Centre ignored warnings: Dhumal," The Indian Express, March 23, 2012.
[19]"37 incursions of Chinese forces reported in Uttarakhand: CM," The Indian Express, April 16 2012 and "37 incursions of Chinese forces reported in Uttarakhand: CM," The Times of India, April 16, 2012.
[20]"Arunachal Pradesh not part of India," The Hindu, July 25, 2003.
[21]"China violated Indian airspace at least thrice this year: ITBP," The Hindu, October 25, 2012.
22 "MP's raise issue of Chinese incursions," The Hindu, August 5, 2013.
[23]"Agreement Between the Government of the Republic of India and the Government of the People's Republic of China on Confidence-Building Measures in the Military Field Along the Line of Actual Control in the India-China Border Areas," United Nations Peacemaker, accessed on April 14, 2017.
[24]"Chinese troops intrude into Arunachal, stay for 4 days, India downplays incident," The Indian Express, August 22 2013 and The Hindu, "Chinese troops camped in Arunachal for 2 days," August 21, 2013.
[25]Manoj Joshi, "Making sense of the Depsang incursion," The Hindu, May 7, 2013.
[26]Ibid. The Hindu, "incursion," May 7, 2013.
[27]"Chinese troops had damaged a stone wall in Arunachal in July: govt'," The Indian Express, December 21, 2011.
[28]"Chinese troops enter Indian territory, dismantle old bunkers: Reports," The Indian Express, December 14, 2011.
[29]"China hails joint mechanism to handle border row," The Hindu, September 15, 2011 and The Times of India, September 14, 2011.
[30]"Chinese Army took away Indian camera," The Hindu, July 10, 2013 and The Indian Express, "China incursion: PLA vandalizes Indian bunkers in Ladakh, takes away camera," July 10, 2013.
[31]"Chinese Army entered Indian waters at Pangong Lake," The Indian Express, November 3, 2014.
[32]"Indian, Chinese patrols face off in Ladakh again," The Times of India, July 22, 2013 and The Indian Express, "Chinese incursion: 50 Chinese soldiers on horses intrude into India," July 21, 2013 and The Hindu, "50 Chinese soldiers on horses intrude into India," July 21, 2013.
[33]"No significant change in Chinese activities on the border: Govt.'," The Indian Express, November 30, 2009 and The Hindu, "No significant change in activities by China on LAC: Anthony," December 1, 2009.
[34]"Chinese troops stop army from patrolling in Indian territory," The Times of India, August 4, 2013 and The Hindu, "China stops India from patrolling in Indian territory," August 5, 2013 and "Chinese troops stop army from patrolling in Indian territory,"The Indian Express, August 4, 2013.
[35]"Chinese intrusion in Ladakh, ITBP asks for flag meet," The Indian Express, April 20, 2013.
[36]"China incursion: India likely to send army contingent to Dualat Beg Oldi area," The Indian Express, April 23, 2013 and The Hindu, "Revert to status-quo: India tells China, April 23, 2013 and The Times of India, ''Chinese incursion: India likely to send Army contingent to Daulat Beg Oldi sector," April 23, 2013.
[37]"India,China hold flag meet as tension escalates after Ladakh incursion," The Indian Express, April 23, 2013.
[38]"China ramps up incursion confrontation, puts up another tent in Ladakh," The Indian Express, April 29, 2013.
[39]"India, China border face-off ends, both sides agree to withdraw troops," The Indian Express, May 6, 2013.
[40]"LAC stand-off: Nearly 1,000 Chinese soldiers enter India," The Times of India, September 18 2014.
[41]"Sushma Swaraj: China cloud clears, back to old LAC positions soon," The Indian Express, September 27, 2014.
[42]"Entire Arunachal Pradesh is our territory: China," The Indian Express, November 14, 2006 and The Hindu, "China seeks to downplay envoy's comments," November 15, 2006.
[43]"Agreement between the Government of the Republic of India and the Government of the People's Republic of China on the Political Parameters and Guiding Principles for the Settlement of the India-China Boundary Question", Media Centre, Ministry of External Affairs- Government of India, accessed on April 1, 2017,
[44] Smith, Cold Peace- India China Rivalry in the Twenty-First Century.
[45]Ibid, Smith, Cold Peace- India China Rivalry in the Twenty-First Century.
[46] Menon, Choices: Inside the Making of India's Foreign Policy,, 42.
[47]"ITBP to get 15 new battalions," The Indian Express, October 24, 2009.
[48]"T-72 tanks moved to remote Sikkim area after China tests Indian defences," The Indian Express, July 28, 2009.
[49]"Sukhoi's to fly from Tezpur airbase," The Times of India, June 16, 2009.
[50]"IAF strengthening air defence radars along LAC with China," The Indian Express, September 25, 2009.
[51]"China flexing muscles, govt clears Brahmos for Arunachal," The Indian Express, October 17, 2011.
[52]"China prompts IAF to upgrade NE bases," The Indian Express, July 17, 2008.
[53]"Sukhoi base in east to counter China," The Times of India, September 28, 2007.
[54]The Indian Express, "defences," July 28, 2009.
[55]Rajeswari Pillai Rajagopalan and Rahul Prakash, "Sino-Indian Border infrastructure: An Update,"ORF Occasional Paper#42 (May 2013).
[56]"Tibet rail to be extended close to India," The Indian Express, August 11, 2006.
[57]"Delhi napping as Beijing pushes Tibet rail to Sikkim, Arunachal," The Indian Express, July 6, 2006.
[58]"Construction by Chinese Army across Karakoram: J&K report," The Times of India, September 14, 2009.
[59]"Spl attention to infrastructure in China border areas: Govt.," The Indian Express, December 2, 2009.
[60]"Building of roads along Sino-Indian border cleared," The Hindu, June 30, 2006.
[61]"A new road to Srinagar: No winter shut-downs, 60 km less, four lanes," The Indian Express, February 18, 2007.
[62]"Government gives go-ahead to 4 strategic lines along the China border," The Indian Express, October 22, 2014.
[63]"Army likely to recruit one-lakh soldiers for the China border," The Times of India, November 2, 2012.
[64]"Cabinet nod for mountain strike corps along the China border," The Hindu, July 18, 2013 and The Times of India, "Boost to army: CCS clears 50,000-strong strike corps for China border," July 18, 2013.
[65]"Army passes intel to Govt: PLA men at Pass linking PoK to China," The Indian Express, August 31, 2010.
[66] Rajagopalan and Prakash, "Sino-Indian Border infrastructure: An Update".
[67]"India holds war games along China, Pakistan next," The Indian Express, September 25, 2012.
[68]"PLA holds ground-air combat military drill in Tibet," The Hindu, August 17, 2012


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Anti-gun folks are going to boycott Starbucks on feb. 14th. Let's show our support for their firearm policies, and stop by and buy something, even if we never stop at Starbucks. I plan on telling them why I am there, and hopefully we can make the anti's look like lost causes!
I plan on buying something from them, even though I don't usually drink their coffee.
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And if you can, pay with your purchase with $2 bills like "MarchHare" said. (You can get them at your bank). This denomination is rarely used, and will get the attention of the Staff at Starbucks, AND the "2" is symbolic of our support for the 2nd Amendment.
Cash drawers full of $2 bills at the end of the day in every Starbucks in the country would get their attention that's for sure. If you owned a business, who would you listen to for setting policy--a bunch of loud, disruptive, ranting protesters trying to convince your customers to not patronize your shop, or a bunch of quiet, polite, law-abiding people who calmly came in to your shop, purchased your product, and went about their business?
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I hope everyone realizes that a single day (to show 'support' for Starbucks) won't exactly fit the ($2) bill.
The boycott *STARTS* on 2/14 and has no specific end date.
Thus, a frequent (weekly?) visit might be of significance, especially paying with the $2 bill.
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I was sufficiently annoyed by the BBC's erasure of the word "terrorist" from reports about Thursday's attacks (see previous post) that I (*ahem*) emailed the news editor of the Daily Telegraph about it. There's no love lost between the Telegraph and the BBC, and so I thought it would be right up their street. (I managed to avoid writing the email in a green font.)
Well, having had no response to my email, I thought that was that, but then today on the front page of the paper I saw a story headlined BBC edits out the word "terrorist":
The BBC has re-edited some of its coverage of the London Underground and bus bombings to avoid labelling the perpetrators as "terrorists", it was disclosed yesterday.
Early reporting of the attacks on the BBC's website spoke of terrorists but the same coverage was changed to describe the attackers simply as "bombers".
The BBC's guidelines state that its credibility is undermined by the "careless use of words which carry emotional or value judgments".
Consequently, "the word 'terrorist' itself can be a barrier rather than an aid to understanding" and its use should be "avoided", the guidelines say.
Rod Liddle, a former editor of the Today programme, has accused the BBC of "institutionalised political correctness" in its coverage of British Muslims.
A BBC spokesman said last night: "The word terrorist is not banned from the BBC."
My email came before that story, and since everyone knows that if A precedes B then A has caused B, well, there you go. Shame not to get a link to the blog out of them, but you can't have everything. 😉
Though I love the way the mainstream media reports stories from the blogosphere. "The BBC has re-edited some of its coverage … it was disclosed yesterday". The story has in fact been doing the rounds since Friday (and, indeed, was posted by Andrew Sullivan that day), but presumably it was only yesterday that a proper journalist got round to checking it out.
And both gratifying (on a personal level) and depressing (on pretty much every other level) to see how right I was about the BBC dropping the word because it was "too value-laden and judgmental" – which is almost word-for-word what the relevant guidelines say, as highlighted above.
Update (Wed 13th July, 4.55 pm): Well whaddaya know. Just had an email from the news editor at the Telegraph thanking me for the tip. Guess that sometimes post hoc is indeed ergo propter hoc after all.


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Just returned from Aruba On Sunday and still recovering! We visited and enjoyed the following restaurants!
Diana's Pancake Place - She is located in the old dutch mill by the high rise. Easy walking distance. We really enjoyed the dutch pancakes - they are thin like a crepe, but there are lots of fruit and meat toppings that she can put on. I had apple and bacon - Yum! She is so friendly and took time to talk with us and take a picture - look for it on her facebook page. She is very familiar with the people on the forum. Not expensive. This is a great place for breakfast - DON'T MISS IT!!
Matthews - I had breakfast there the last day. The breakfast is awesome and very inexpensive, no more than what we pay at our local café. Great beachside location. Service was good. Try the Pastechis - Aruban breakfast fried rolls filled with cheese and ham.
Smokey Joe's - my friend had the ribs and I had the Jamaican Jerk Chicken - Delicious!!. Very reasonable prices, great outdoor seating, easy walking distance to the Radisson. I would do again.
Texas De Brazil - Beautiful inside. We were seated right away with no wait. Service was great; attentive but not overbearing. The salad bar is wonderful. My only reservation would be that it is quite expensive for the amount that I like to eat - If you are a big eater and want to try a large variety, you will enjoy it but be prepared for the check.
Wacky Wahoo - we were lucky to get a table at 9 without a reservation. Their dishes are fantastic! I had the special with a large grouper filet topped with shrimp and scallops. Absolutely fantastic. Everyone enjoyed their meal and I would consider it the highlight of the entire trip save for...
Madame Jeanette's - OMG, this place is everything that people say it is. We had a 730 reservation and were seated with no wait. I got to meet Kasi and told him how much we appreciate his comments on the forum. The ambiance is fantastic - outside with the soft lights and foliage. We had excellent service, the best of the trip!. The crab cake appetizer was superb - lots of crab and a delicious sauce. We all had beef in one form or another - I had the butcher steak which was so tender and cooked beautifully. A funny thing happened - my friend spilled a glass on wine on me near the end of the meal - just an accident, but I was so impressed with the wait staff and how they tried to help with a wash cloth, club soda, and towel. They even replaced the spilled wine! Then we had a surprise when we treated to spoon dessert from Kasi! This restaurant has truly earned its reputation as the best on the island and I cannot thank Kasi and his staff enough for a wonderful meal and experience. Two of my friends were on the island for the first time and they were blown away. Thanks again, and MJ will be at the top of our list again next time.
I am please to report that Aruba has converted two more Kansans (in addition to me and Jeff) to being return visitors! Thanks to all for your recommendations. Andrea, is there anyone on the island that you don't know??
The "musts" that I will go to again are: Diana's, Wacky Wahoo, and MJ.


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pathetic. abdicating your responsibilities as journalists. no wonder people are fucking uninformed these days.In a windowless room at the Westin Hotel in downtown Denver, leading business journalists and editors explained how the media blew it in covering the economic meltdown. They admitted, on one hand, to falling under the sway of free-market ideology and celebrating risk-taking financial leaders and, on the other, to missing the complex story of the rupturing system by only reporting it in parts and to almost no effect for the past decade.
Although not planned as confession, the discussion, which kicked off the annual conference of the Society of American Business Editors and Writers (SABEW), quickly descended into an unburdening, with the panelists taking turns voicing their own explanations and excuses for the failure. Former Wall Street Journal managing editor and current ProPublica.org chief Paul Steiger moderated the impromptu journalistic penitence.
We drank the Kool-Aid, said Jane Bryant Quinn, personal finance columnist for Bloomberg and Newsweek. We believed that free markets were the best kind [of markets]. She said it had become unfashionable over the last three decades to write about regulation, so they didnt.
We could say things were risky but we never said Wheres the Fed?
University of Michigan business professor Greg Miller said that the finance beat had simply grown too complex and compartmentalized for journalists to cover well in the traditional way.
No one banker could walk me through securitization in 2006, he said. Theyre all specialists. He said bankers rely on other specialists to take up the slack. They dont know even know each others names, he said.
Miller suggested journalists should specialize and then work together to create more comprehensive coverage.
But veteran TV journalist Allan Dodds Frank, who now writes for the DailyBeast.com after a career with CNN, Bloomberg and ABC News covering white collar crime, said that complex economic stories were virtually impossible to sell to his editors.
Fannie and Freddie were not covered on TV because theres no visual, he said, referring to the countrys major lenders, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, which made billions in the run up to the collapse by doling out increasingly high-risk loans.
He said journalists couldnt figure out what Wall Street was doing and that high-rolling CEOs and fund managers were never compelled to answer tough questions.
We soft-balled them because we wanted them to come on [our shows] we let them hide the ball on us.
Frank pointed out that there were no representatives at the conference from CNBC the business channel ridiculed recently for its celebratory coverage of Wall Street and said it was no secret that in broadcast financial journalism, corporations are sexy. Coveted interviews with CEO celebrities had moved investigative pieces off of edit calendars.
The glamorization of business news [led us] to adopt a posture of reverence [toward our subjects] We knew it was nonsense, he said.
Of the journalists on the panel, New York Times Business Editor Larry Ingrassia was the least bowed. He read out a list of stories The Times had run over the last decade that treated the escalating loan crisis and executive compensation, for example.
The regulators were asleep but we reporters were not, he said.
He later explained that the stories were there even if readers didnt heed them. He explained that his writers are looking to explain problems and maintained it was unfair to judge coverage based on whether people act on the information reported.
In the end he seemed to undermine his argument, though, agreeing that they missed an important story that would have targeted a group that could have made a difference. The laxity of federal finance regulators went unreported in The New York Times and in other publications, he admitted.
The [finance industry] lobbyists had more impact on the regulators than we did, he said, pointing indirectly to the expanded influence the financial sector came to wield in Washington over the past three decades the story many now argue is at the heart of the collapse.
SABEW conference organizers said that, even though other journalism organizations canceled events this year, they decided to go forward despite the ongoing crisis in the newspaper industry.
There is a huge need for business journalists to become more knowledgeable and versatile for the sake of readers and viewers and for their [own] personal livelihoods, SABEW President Bernie Kohn wrote in the conference program.
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I am the FeedWatcher and every summer I am a Big Brother addict. Live feed updates, gossip, and other tidbits. Yes, I post spoilers.
Friday, August 17, 2012
Big Brother After Dark - The New Old HOH - 8-17-12 #BB14
This episode aired on Showtime at 9:00 pm BBT on Thursday night, and in the wee hours of Friday where I live.
The live show happened earlier this evening, and Wil was evicted. Shane won the endurance HOH, which involved speed, balance, and cardiovascular strength. Britney won Safety for the week. Jenn, Ashley and Dan were also going for the Safety prize, and had to change course quickly when Britney won the prize.
Mike Boogie is the only player who played for $10,000, so he won it easily. I'm pretty sure Mike will live to regret that decision fairly soon. But I'm not sure he will actually admit that.
1. When the show begins, a few of the house guests are sitting around the living room chatting. Mike, Shane, Frank, Britney, Ian and Danielle were there. Maybe Dan too. They discuss Ian's armpits, and talk about how red his skin is in that area.
Then they discuss Joe, who is apparently not in the room. They discuss how Joe wanted to come in the house "full Guy Fieri", wearing a faux hawk that was the same color as the landing strip on his chin. Production couldn't go for that, so they made him change the color.
They discuss how Joe made it on the show at the last minute. Britney didn't know that, so they told her that Joe had called his wife and said he was coming home, and then the next day he ended up going in the house.
(Of course, we know that Mike the Sailing Instructor was featured on the CBS commercial, and was out of the game the very next day. This must have happened right at the last minute.)
The house guests start guessing which guy from sequester got cut. Several of them think it was the "tall guy with the full sleeve of tats" and Ian says it could be "the old Asian dude".
Production doesn't like anything about this conversation and warns them several times. The camera change several times to show us Jenn laying in the Boom Boom Room with a bandana over her eyes. You can tell she is pissed off just from looking at the way her jaw is set.
Danielle talks about the many times she fell during the competition. Ian doesn't think it was an endurance competition, since the last man standing didn't win. He thinks it was a physical competition and Shane is on the fence about the proper classification.
2. Britney went off on a tangent about the shitty competition last year where they won the right to see the show "Same Name" with David Hasselhoff. Mike said that one of the producers of that show also produced Famous Foods and Britney rolled her eyes. They talk about how stupid that show was. Jordan won that competition and they ate sushi and watched the show with the Hoff.
Britney discusses the luxury competition in BB12, where the guys fought to grab the same bandanas and they all won the right to watch The Other Guys. Dan hosted a competition during BB11 and it was horrible. Dan had fun, but during the downtime of the competition the house guests were really mean to Jeff and were just ripping on him about his spelling error, etc. Dan said it was really tense and horrible and he couldn't believe it.
Dan told Jeff and Jordan to just keep their heads up, that America loved them. (I guess they are having the last laugh, huh?) Jessie Godderz was also there and was not happy to see Dan at all. No love lost there, after Dan won BB10.
3. After the commercial Ian is describing how the Wikipedia page for BB lists the voting history, and the different colored bars for each house guest.
Dan: I'm expecting an elaborate Wikipedia page, with colorful bars and graphs....
Ian: Oh, our BB14 page will be huge, because of the reset.
They wonder what Wil is doing, and conclude he is likely drinking right now. Then they discuss BB9 and Ian said that there was "no thinking that year", and they would nominate someone just because they didn't like them.
Ian: They wanted a cast that would just frickin' rage...it was a winter season and they just wanted Showtime to be off the chain. Half of that cast did, like frickin' drugs, and they gave them a lot of booze..
Shane: If we had booze, we could rage too..
Ian: And Dan was supposed to be on BB9. Can you imagine that? Father Dan in there with that crowd?
Britney says that Matt Hoffman was supposed to be on BB11 (His wedding was scheduled for the Finale day, so he had to say no.) Then she starts saying that Dan was told he needed to come in and just "shoot some extra footage". and the cameras change.
We see Frank fast asleep in Skid Row, with a bandana tied over his eyes.
4. Then we go back to the living room where they are discussing college graduation. Danielle sat for 4 1/2 hours to wait her turn to walk up and get her degree. Britney took 16 hours or more every semester in college, and never went to summer school, but still graduated in 3 1/2 years. She majored in Communications and Spanish and was already working so she did that instead of marching.
Britney says the key is to have both majors be in the same college, so that the classes count towards both programs. Ian's mom wanted him to back out of BB, and begged him "the night before additional footage" not to do it. Ian's dad didn't even know. When Ian was about to go to Semi Finals he asked his dad if he would ever go on a Reality show and his dad made a disparaging comment about it, so they didn't tell him.
Mike asks Sam to please let him go next to the DR, since he is tired and everybody else is a night owl.
Britney's mom went to "the first convention" for the first episode of Survivor. They told her she couldn't be on the show because she couldn't swim. But then they cast Gervais on the show and he couldn't swim. They let him wear a life vest, so after that her mom was pissed and didn't apply again. For the interview process they did things like bring a monkey in the room to see what she would do around them.
Her Mom is named Teresa, and Britney says her personality is just like her's, except more extreme. She is really mean to Britney's step dad when he tries to give her innovative gifts. They asked her what she looks like and Britney says she is attractive. They have the same body, but her face is different.
She came to the Wrap Party of BB12 but she and Britney were catching up--Britney wanted to know about her house. Alison and Rich from Production are the ones who told Britney that her house burned down, but we didn't get to hear the exact words that were said. We saw Frank sleeping instead.
Britney lost some things she couldn't replace, things she bought on her backpacking travels. And some pictures got charred. Nothing she lost was very expensive, but there was sentimental value.
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5. After commercial they are talking about Wil and his music career. Britney can't remember why his first record deal failed, but the second time he was in Germany and the guy who signed him went insane, or something like that. When he tried out for American Idol the judges told him that they didn't like his looks, his clothes, but he was wearing exactly what Adam Lambert would wear. So Wil thinks they took Adam instead of him. (I guess that was the same season?)
They try to guess what kind of music Wil sings, and what his genre is. I think they are missing the fact that Wil started this at age 13, and was part of the boy band movement. They are thinking that he was a serious artist, and I don't think that was the case.
Britney says he just got signed to a label in Louisville. Joe asked who else in the house is lying about their profession? Dan jokes that he is an executive chef.
(Mike talked about this earlier today. He said he was watching Danielle's face when this was discussed. He knows she is lying. You can see that here.)
6. Britney baked cookies and Danielle didn't know they were ready--she was in the DR when they came out of the oven, apparently. Britney is begging Ian to do a BB12 recap for her. Ian didn't want to do it--he is tired and wants to get out of it.
Britney voted for Kaysar and Janelle to go on BB7. Mike said Chicken George actually put on a chicken suit and went around the country to campaign for votes. The Early Show wouldn't even have him on, even though they were promoting the BB7 vote. Ian is surprised that Jase got the viewer's vote, because he "wasn't particularly liked by the viewers".
Britney: I liked Jase.
Ian: I liked the Horseman. I liked Scott Long.
Mike went to a charity event in Oklahoma and Cowboy (BB5) was there with a "400 pound dude" even though he wasn't scheduled to participate. He kept showing up to the events and at one point jumped into the limo with the "400 pound dude". The woman who was running the event didn't have the guts to tell him that he wasn't invited, and the limo only had room for seven people.
Mike says it was a Fire Lake Casino and Will got in good with some lady who ran it. They went three years in a row. Showtime went to commercial and we missed some chatter about this, unfortunately. Dan went too, the year that the Cowboy incident happened, and mentioned that they also ran over a lady's foot in a rickshaw. (?)
7. Ian says there were 5 or 6 Jennifers or Jenns on Big Brother. He went through the list of Jenns. Mike thought Jenn from BB6 was cute. (I think she just became a Knicks dancer.)
Danielle wishes there weren't two other Danielle's on BB. Ian goes through the people with unusual names on the show (Monet, Enzo, Memphis...)
At 1:05 into the show, Shane bursts out of the DR and asks the question, "Who wants to see my HOH room?" They went upstairs and this is the first time that they go ahead and open the door, even though not all of the HG were there.
He sees the picture of Dozer his dog first and picks it up, saying his name in his "doggy voice". He got Lucky Charms, Chips Ahoy, Reese Cups, and a few pair of new footie socks. He hugged Jenn and thanked her for coming upstairs, even thought she is in pain. They all say how hot Shane's sister is, and then that Dozer got the looks in the family.
His sister wrote the letter, and calls him "Broseph" This is the longest time she's ever gone without talking to him, and she misses him but the house is cleaner. She gives an update about the families activities, and they all miss him, etc. She signs off "Get 'Er Done, Shannon". She went on a July 4th cruise on Lake that Mike was familiar with---Lake Winnamasockee or something like that.
In his fridge he got some string cheese, fresh fruit, some salsa and Monster. He also got Blue Moon beers and put that in the fridge. He didn't get any coffee. Britney opened up his turkey jerky and he had some too. The CD is Akon and some of them have never heard of Akon.
Shane's sister Shannon used to date his friend Ron. She is moving to Concord NH, where Mike grew up, with some guy. Mike is going to look her up when he visits his mom this year and will give Shane a call, too. He can take Shane to the "hot spots in Concord" and they laugh about that.
Mike and Dan left the room to go to bed. Britney is singing in a sing-song voice that "Shane can't nominate me, no matter how mean I am..." Ian doesn't have a shirt on and I can see where his underarms are red.
Danielle is listening to the CD and Shane tells her it is from 2008. Ashley is downstairs and is going to bed, too.
7. Frank finally shows up in the HOH--I guess he was still sleeping before. He looks at Shane's pictures in a half-ass way, but then goes over and gets a Chips Ahoy. Ashley comes up with a big announcement---they have 2 bottles of wine and 7 beers in the storage room. That is a lot of booze, comparatively.
Britney is going to split a bottle of wine with Danielle. Ian just wants to "watch TV". (ha ha) Seeing the booze gave Ashley a second wind. They went to storage and gathered all of the booze to take it up to the HOH. Joe plans to drink a whole bottle of wine. They got the opener and some glasses and went upstairs with it all.
The pan of cookies Britney baked is still on the counter, with one large cookie still in the pan.
(No wonder the ants came back the next day....)
Ian isn't going to drink, and tells the former Have Nots to enjoy his share. Frank is subdued and unusually quiet. I think he must have been sleeping soundly. They agree that drinking in the HOH is "so VIP". Shane is having one glass of red wine, and Joe is going to drink the rest. Britney and Danielle are drinking the bottle of Chardonnay.
They all clink and congratulate Shane. Joe jokes about his "strong 4th place finish" in the competition. Shane's favorite beer is Heineken Light and Ian scoffs at the "Light" part of that. Shane says the best cheap light beer is Keystone Light. Ashley likes the baby Mickey's. Joe says those are called Little Kings.
Frank goes downstairs and says goodnight. Ashley wishes they could put the music over the speaker so they can all hear it. Danielle and Britney each listen to the CD with one of the headphones and they both headbob at the same time. They're cute doing that, and they're digging the songs. Ashley is rubbing the top of Ian's head while they sit on the HOH couch. Danielle says she's watching him and they all laugh.
They discuss what could happen if Shane is tempted with Pandora's Box. He could win money. And then someone brings up how much money Mike has mad---so far he is up to $16,000. Britney says that amount of money cold make a huge difference to any of them....and Mike is the one who took the money.
(Mike's in trouble. Big time.) We see a quick flash of Skid Row, where Mike and Frank are both sleeping. You can hear loud breathing, and also BB warning the HOH crew not to talk about Production. Ian is talking about Bonnie from Casting--they think she does casting across the Southeast.
So of course we have to see Frank sleeping again.
8. Now back to the HOH, where the wine is hitting Joe in a good way. He says he looked over at Shane and Shane looked like he was shuffling in the park. He demonstrated and it was funny. BB had to tell Ashley to stop putting liquid in Safety after Britney won. Mike told Joe to just quit, and to save himself for the POV and not get hurt. No one liked that and I think some were offended on behalf of Joe.
Now they discuss that Frank was upset a little that he couldn't play for safety or the prize, since he couldn't play for HOH. Britney points out TWICE that Frank got saved by the reset button.
Dan: Britney why did you push that button?
Britney laughs and says, okay Dan. Danielle heard exactly what Dan said, and repeats it. Dan disagrees and says he went in there and the button was already pressed. Britney says that Janelle said nearly every day that she was going in the game. Joe says that Janelle told him she wouldn't go in the game, because she had three players in the game and had better chances that way.
9. Now the lights were on on Skid Row and Frank is bitching about BB not letting them prop the HOH door open upstairs. He says they "didn't say shit when we were playing poker up there with the door open". And the cameras change.
And Britney is pointing out AGAIN that Frank got saved from eviction with a Reset. Joe says you never know in this game what is going to happen. Shane says that based on Mike's workouts, he would expect him to do better in the competitions then he has. Shane even thinks he could have won HOH tonight and Britney agrees. With Mike's height and agility, he would have been a contender.
Joe points out that if the competition is "brute strength", he's winning. Ian thinks the next competition will involve counting, or be a "how bad do you want it" type of thing.
Ian: If it's How Bad do you Want It, you can all just stop playing. Because I'll do anything......I'll shit in a bucket and sit in it....I don't care...I just want to wear it. (the POV, I guess)
10. It's really hot in the HOH and Shane politely asks BB to turn on the A/C for them. Now they discuss the How Bad Do You Want It comp in BB12. Matt Hoffman said that he was buzzing in to win all of the bad prizes (that's the week he went home) but Britney disputes that. She walked over to Ian and whispered in his ear and he said, "Interesting".
They thought about movies that were coming out this summer, to guess if a movie star might host a compeition. They say Vince Vaughn has a movie coming out and Britney and Danielle go crazy. Britney says several times that she is IN LOVE with Vince Vaughn. Shane said what if Justin Timberlake comes in?
They both squealed and Britney said she can't stand if he comes in.
I have to cut this one off about 20 minutes before the show ends, but I think this cover the high points.
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While in Airlie Beach, BG did a three day cruise of the Whitsunday Islands, and came back to me sunburned and crispy, though happy at seeing humpback whales interacting with their babies (even one giving birth!), and snorkeling the Great Barrier Reef. I, the land-based half of this traveling organism, stayed behind and relaxed in our spacious hotel room... nothing too exciting there!
We arrived in tropical Cairns yesterday after a few days of steady driving north and said a sad goodbye to our beloved Spaceship "Jaz". You may remember that we hired a Spaceship called "Dexter" in New Zealand as well, and we have to say that we were ridiculously pleased with the whole Spaceship experience, start to finish! The administrative staff are so laid back and friendly they even drove over to our hostel to get something WE forgot to give THEM because they owed us money. Amazing.
Seriously, Spaceships are awesome. In New Zealand, we drove Dexter through both the South and North Islands, through snow, ice, rain, and sun. We drove thousands of kilometres and stopped whenever we felt like it, pulling into car-sized parking lots in
We had enough room for the two of us and all of our gear.
Here in Australia, Jaz took us from Sydney to Cairns in four weeks, carrying three people and all of their
We chose a Spaceship over any other camper van rental for many reasons. Initially, they were pretty damn cool to look at, with their bright orange paint job and the name -- we can now say that we drove a Spaceship! The price was sweeter than sweet, as the daily rate was less than half of that of a traditional camper van, and because Spaceships are basically minivans, they use much less fuel (cha CHING)!
Then we started interacting with the staff. They were friendly and helpful. They gave us discounts, answered all enquiries with thoughtfulness and humour, and declined to take a credit card deposit on booking, saying that they "trusted [us] to show up." Then they gave us DVDs to watch (did I mention the Spaceship had a DVD player?), a Frisbee, and a deck of cards. Any technical problems that we did have were dealt with to our satisfaction and beyond, and they reimbursed us for any inconveniences that we had (there were very few.)
So, in summary... Spaceships are awesome because:
- They're cost-effective rentals, having cheaper rates and using less fuel than campers.
- They're convenient to drive and park, because they're smaller and more maneuverable. They fit into normal parking spaces and parking garages without diva drama.
- Spaceships provide plenty of entertainment options, from DVD movies to iPod karaoke.
- Do-it-yourself cooking and food preparation is a breeze with the "en-suite" gas-powered stove* and fridge.
- Spaceship Cosmonauts (the staff) are super-helpful and super-friendly... and super-cute too.
- Spaceships allow you to go wherever you want, whenever you want, however you want.


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last month I bought from a Flea Market in Vienna a Luftschutz helmet in a quite good conditions. The only problem is that unfortunately the original decal was erased and on it was placed another one (It has the form of a shield) that is badly preserved itself. Can anyone tell me what type of decal is that? Was it applied during WW2 or it is a later addition? I couldn't find anything similar until now
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