The meeting point is at an especially sensitive location as it was the region of many Chinese incursions. The meeting point is at an elevation of and hosts one of the highest airstrips in the world. It is the northernmost meeting point. A three-week long confrontation occurred here in 2013 when China objected to Indian fortifications at Chumur. The airstrip was unused from the 1965 India-Pakistan war until 2008 when India sought to show its ability to respond to threats in the remote region and landed an Antonov-32 transport plane there. Five years later, India sent another transport, a C-130J Super Hercules to the base. India considers this location strategically important as a point from which to control the Karakoram Highway between Gilgit-Baltistan, Pakistan and China's Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region. Such control would be important in the event of a war between India and China.