The new Indian prime minister Modi continues to make decisions that are particularly dangerous to India and by extension to the world. His recent concessions along the disputed China-India border in the Himalaya highlands positions the Chicoms to dominate the region. He also cost local Indian villages their historic/traditional farmlands. Officially it is declared to be a "no-man's land" but all of it is on the Indian side of the border. The Chicoms gave up nothing in "the deal." Militarily India has dismantled and removed all of their outposts from the region, while the Chicoms continue to man theirs along the border.
Local farmers are dependent on the pastures in the region to graze goats and cattle, and now they are banned from entering the zone.
Modi's press coordinator defended the move saying the prime minister seeks peace with China and wanted to eliminate a hot spot of conflict between the two nations. There have been frequent exchanges between the opposing armies in the area, with 80 Indian troops killed, about 300 wounded over the past 10+ years. The Chicom casualties are not known but are estimated to be higher. In one confirmed incident several years ago 48 Chinese soldiers were killed and 150 wounded in a battle that erupted in a mountain pass. An Indian colonel was killed by a Chicom sniper and that pissed off his men, an elite battalion of mountain troops, who rushed into the Chicom camp guns blazing.