evidence: New Delhi: The Indian Army will be studying the military implications of China building a road in Shaksgam Valley as Beijing’s physical occupation could potentially threaten Indian defences in Siachen Glacier. The 5180 square kilometer of Indian territory in Shaksgam Valley was illegally ceded by Pakistan to China in 1963. [...] India has been raising the issue of Shaksgam Valley in the Special Representative Dialogue on Boundary Resolution, the last meeting of which was held in December 2019. Even though Indian Special representative Ajit Doval has met his Chinese counterpart Wang Yi on the sidelines in BRICS in South Africa on July 24, 2023, the SR dialogue has virtually been put on the back burner after Chinese PLA threw all the bilateral agreements out of the window and transgressed in East Ladakh in May 2020. The loss of Colonel Santosh Babu and his 19 troopers in a clash with PLA at Galwan on June 15, 2020 has further hardened positions on both sides as India has no intentions in allowing Beijing to unilaterally impose the 1959 line on East Ladakh. [...] By lodging at least two protests in the past two years on road construction in Shaksgam Valley, India has made it clear to China that it is right to protect its territory and will take measures to ensure that road construction is halted in the illegally occupied territory.