The Indian security establishment on Tuesday sought to downplay the festering controversy over China’s construction of a new village on the disputed border in the Upper Subansiri district of Arunachal Pradesh by stressing the area in question had been under Beijing’s occupation since 1959. The Indian security establishment on Tuesday sought to downplay the festering controversy over China’s construction of a new village on the disputed border in the Upper Subansiri district of Arunachal Pradesh by stressing the area in question had been under Beijing’s occupation since 1959.