India, March 1 -- A couple of weeks ago, The Washington Post published an article titled, 'In Central Asia's forbidding highlands, a quiet newcomer: Chinese troops'. It reported: "Two miles above sea level in the inhospitable highlands of Central Asia, there's a new power watching over an old passage into Afghanistan: China." According to interviews, satellite images, photographs and first-hand observations by a Washington Post journalist, it was found that Chinese troops have settled in one of the most strategic areas of central Asia, termed "a choke point in Tajikistan."

The US newspaper said, "Tajikistan - awash with Chinese investment - joins the list of Chinese military sites that includes Djibouti in the strategic Horn of Africa an...