China has allegedly constructed 3 villages, 5 kilometres from the Bum La pass in Arunachal Pradesh, which lies near the tri-junction between India, China and Bhutan.

The new satellite images presented in a report come barely a week after satellite images appeared of Chinese constructing villages in Bhutanese territory, seven kilometres from the Doklam face-off site between Indian and Chinese troopers in 2017.

Although the villages appearing in the satellite images lie within Chinese territory, significantly the construction of the villages took place at a time when the Indian and Chinese troops faced off in Eastern Ladakh. The fresh construction activities can be seen as a fresh attempt by China towards reinforcing its territorial claims along the Arunachal Pradesh frontier.