China bound to be a threat in coming years: Army vice chief

NEW DELHI: China is expanding its influence across the Himalayas in India’s neighbourhood and is bound to be a “threat” in the coming years, a top Army general said today.

Lt Gen. Sarath Chand, the vice chief of the Indian Army, also castigated Pakistan’s Army for targeting civilians in cross-border shelling, stressing they had “stooped so low” as to fire at schools.

“This is not what the Indian Army would do,” the vice chief said at the inaugural session of AMICON 2017, a two-day conference organised by the Army and the Confederation of India Industry(CII). (AGENCIES)