The Chinese foreign ministry did not respond to a request for comment.
“Given the domestic compulsions … in China and their economic interests in the region, the PLA would continue to build up its military infrastructure and skirmishes would also get frequent which may or may not follow a pattern,” the paper said, referring to China’s People’s Liberation Army.
“If we analyse the pattern of skirmishes and tensions, the intensity has increased since 2013 to 2014 with an interval of every 2 to 3 years,” it said.
“With the massive infrastructure build up by PLA on Chinese side both the armies are testing each other’s reaction, strength of artillery and infantry mobilization time.”
The report also said India has been slowly losing ground to China in Ladakh as the border has been pushed inside Indian territory through the creation of buffer zones.
India and China share a 3,500 km border that has been disputed since the 1950s. The two sides went to war over it in 1962.