Chinese media slams report on mining near Arunachal border

Chinese media questioned the report's motive while hoping that India would not be "provoked" by it and blight the progress achieved at last month's Wuhan summit.

Slamming a report about large-scale mining by China at the Arunachal Pradesh border, official Chinese media here on Tuesday questioned the report’s motive while hoping that India would not be “provoked” by it and blight the progress achieved at last month’s Wuhan summit.
 

The Hong Kong-based South China Morning Post on Sunday reported that China has begun large-scale mining operations Lhunze county under its control adjacent to the border with Arunachal Pradesh where a huge trove of gold, silver and other precious minerals valued at about $60 billion has been found. The report also claimed that China is rapidly building infrastructure to turn the area into another South China Sea-like scenario.