evidence: (TibetanReview.net, May03’24) —India has lodged a strong protest to China last week over the latter’s building of a road in Shaksgam Valley which belongs to it, and which also has the potential to threaten Indian defences in Siachen Glacier. This 5180 square-kilometre Indian territory was illegally ceded by Pakistan to China in 1963, noted the hindustantimes.com and other reports May 3. [...] India maintains that under the 1963 agreement, Pakistan illegally ceded to China 5,180 sq km of Indian territory in Shaksgam Valley from areas illegally occupied by it in the Union Territory of Ladakh. It has also maintained that China continues to be in illegal occupation of approximately 38,000 sq kms of Indian territory in Ladakh for the past six decades, the report said. [...] India is stated to have been raising the issue of Shaksgam Valley in the Special Representative Dialogue on Boundary Resolution, the last of which was held in Dec 2019. This dialogue has, however, virtually been put on the backburner after Chinese PLA threw all the bilateral agreements out of the window and transgressed in East Ladakh in May 2020. India has no intention to allow Beijing to unilaterally impose the 1959 line on East Ladakh.