Northeastern India leads to the road separating the Tawang district near the Line of Actual Control on the India-China border.

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[Compiler Guan Shuping/Comprehensive Report] India and China clashed on the disputed border of the Himalayas in December last year. The US "Fox News" reported on the 21st that India had obtained real-time intelligence from the US government beforehand, which made India in this conflict. China has the upper hand, catching China off guard and repelling the Chinese invasion.

Fox News quoted US News and World Report (US News) as reporting that a source familiar with the situation said that the intelligence sharing "was a successful demonstration of how the two militaries now cooperate and share intelligence", and pointed out that India was at the time Wait for the actions of the Chinese troops "because the United States has given India everything it needs to be fully prepared for this".

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The Sino-Indian border conflict occurred on December 9 last year in the Tawang district of Arunachal Province in northeastern India. Chinese soldiers approached the "Line of Actual Control" that separates the two countries. The two sides had previously agreed not to send troops to patrol. The area was successfully stopped by India from crossing the line.

Fox reported that nine Indian troops and 22 Chinese troops were wounded in the bloody conflict.

The source said that a few weeks before the conflict, the U.S. government noticed that China was conducting a test exercise to test whether it could seize new strongholds in the disputed border area, and disclosed to the Indian military in advance detailed information about China's deployment location and the number of troops , and satellite images, allowing the Indian military to intercept the Chinese People's Liberation Army in time.

The United States and India signed the "Geospatial Basic Exchange and Cooperation Agreement (BECA)" in 2020. This intelligence sharing is the first time under this agreement. The information shared is more detailed and faster than what the United States has shared with India in the past.

Several analysts and officials confirmed details of the confrontation and the U.S. role, with many saying the U.S. decision to share such intelligence was unprecedented and showed that the U.S. and India were trying to counter China's ambitions in the region. There is a lot of room for expanding cooperation.

Rebekah Koffler, a former U.S. Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) official, said the new intelligence-sharing pact was "highly important" and that strengthening ties with India "is a good thing for the U.S." India, "also helps to curb China's ambitions".

She said that according to the intelligence unit's threat assessment in 2023, the Sino-Indian border territorial dispute "has the possibility of deteriorating into a full-scale conflict between the two nuclear-armed countries." interest poses immediate risk."