All participants wanted the Government of India to continue with its infrastructure-building projects in Arunachal Pradesh, even while continuing the border talks with China. Mr.B.Raman, former Additional Secretary, Cabinet Secretariat, Govt of India, pointed out that India should at the same time, have an adequate military strategy to defend the projects being built in Arunachal Pradesh, if necessary by induction of more mountain divisions. Mr R.Swaminathan, former Special Secretary and Director-General (Security), Government of India, suggested, as a measure pending a final border settlement, creation of a Sino-Indian administrative boundary in Arunachal Pradesh, on the basis of areas being administered by each side. He added that instead of a Line of Actual Control, there can be a Line of Administrative Control. Most of the participants felt that China would like to keep the border issue alive, so as to put psychological pressure on India and in particular, prevent India from developing infrastructure in Arunachal Pradesh. Mr B.Raman pointed out that as part of China%u2019s strategic culture of looking far ahead, it is already visualising various scenarios and options relating to what can happen in Tibet in the post-Dalai Lama period. China nurses a suspicion that Tawang was the place from where the Khampa revolt in Tibet in the 1950s was orchestrated by the CIA. Commodore R.S.Vasan, Additional Director, Observer Research Foundation (ORF) Chennai Chapter, felt that India sh
