China warns against deploying BrahMos in Arunachal Pradesh

PLA’s official mouthpiece, the PLA Daily, has warned India that doing so could attract counter offence from China and could disturb the peace on the Line of Actual Control (LAC) along India-China border.

“India deploying supersonic missiles on the border has exceeded its own needs for self-defence and poses a serious threat to China’s Tibet and Yunnan provinces,” said the commentary, published this weekend in the PLA’s influential official newspaper.

The PM Narendra Modi led-National Democratic Alliance government had given the final go-ahead for the Army to induct and deploy an advanced version of the BrahMos missile for mountain warfare in the Northeast earlier this month. 

The Cabinet Committee on Security, chaired by PM Narendra Modi, had cleared the fourth BrahMos regiment at a cost of over Rs 4,300 crore. India, however, is still playing catch-up after China set up massive infrastructure in Tibet and Xinjiang.