evidence: Friction points in Ladakh - ‘Friction point’ are the points of Chinese ingress into hitherto India-controlled territory in Ladakh, where this control is exercised by the Army and the Indo-Tibetan Border Police (ITBP) through regular patrols to the claimed areas. [...] - This attempt to delink the strategically important area of Depsang from the ongoing Ladakh border crisis is worrying. [...] Dangers of delinking Depsang - Invalidation of Indian claims: The biggest danger of delinking Depsang from the current border crisis in Ladakh, however, is of corroborating the Chinese argument, which invalidates the rightful Indian claim over a large swathe of territory.