NEW DELHI—The pandemic has aggravated the persisting problems faced by people living in high-altitude, trans-Himalayan villages on the India-China border in eastern Ladakh, which have witnessed intense tensions the past year. The Epoch Times talked to Konchok Stanzin, the councilor of Chushul constituency that consists of twelve villages on the de-facto border and includes the region of the Pangong Tso lake, one of the main epicenters of the past year’s conflict. Eight villages in Stanzin’s constituency are on “zero-border,” which means the Chinese villages are visible from these locations, while four villages are adjacent to the Indian border villages. The pandemic and the lockdown have added to the woes of the people in this inhospitable terrain that’s just emerging from extreme, isolating winters and the tensions of the last year’s standoff that eased off only in February after high-level talks ensured military disengagement. Fear of renewed conflict remains high as …