China has moved new advanced longer-range CSS-5 missiles close to the borders with India and developed contingency plans to shift airborne forces at short notice to the region, the Pentagon has said in its latest annual report submitted to the US Congress.
Despite the growing India-China relationship, it said tensions continued on the border, with rising cases of Chinese violations. A senior American official said, however, that the US had not seen any anomalous increase in military capabilities on the Sino-India border. —PTI