New Delhi: At least 250 troops of the Chinese People’s Liberation Army patrolled along a disputed section of the Line of Actual Control (LAC) near Yangtze, 50 km north of Tawang monastery in the western part of Arunachal Pradesh. The three-hour patrol was conducted on June 9 around 25 km east of Bumla, the designated border personnel meeting point for local military commanders. A battalion of the Indian Army is located in the Yangtze area, which incidentally has no road access. This is not the first time that the PLA troops have landed in this area. They do it every year. It may, however, be difficult to connect an LAC-issue with an international event like India’s pending Nuclear Suppliers Group membership and Beijing’s opposition to it. Arunachal is claimed in its entirety by China. TNS