4 Chinese soldiers die in bloody India border clash reveals China

4 Chinese soldiers die in bloody India border clash reveals China

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The two parties fought with fists, stones and nailed bamboo poles, in the deadliest clash between the two nuclear-armed neighbors in more than 40 years. New Delhi had earlier said at least 20 Indian soldiers had been killed during the fighting in the Galwan Valley area.
The Chinese official army newspaper, PLA Daily, said on Friday that a battalion commander, Chen Hongjun, and three soldiers – Chen Xiangrong, Xiao Siyuan and Wang Zhuoran – were killed in the “fierce battle” defending the border, and were given posthumously. awards.
An award was also given to Qi Fabao, the regimental commander of the PLA Xinjiang Military Command, who was reportedly seriously injured in the collision.

PLA Daily did not disclose the soldiers’ ranks.

Twenty Indian soldiers killed after clash with China along the disputed border
According to the PLA Daily report, ‘foreign military’ troops violated an agreement with China and crossed the border into the Chinese side to set up tents. The report also claims that when the Qi had some PLA soldiers negotiated, the Indian side deployed more soldiers in an attempt to force the Chinese troops to surrender.

China and India blamed each other for the skirmish.

A source in the Indian Army told CNN earlier that the dispute began over a Chinese tent built the night before the collision. According to the source, Indian troops demolished it. The next day, Chinese soldiers armed with stones and bamboo sticks with nails returned, the source said, attacking unprepared Indian troops. CNN cannot independently confirm this report of events.

Disputed border

India and China share a 2,100-kilometer (3,379-kilometer) border in the Himalayas, which in places is poorly defined and hotly contested. Both sides claim territory on either side of it.

The collision in June 2020 erupted near Pangong Tso, a strategically important lake located about 4267 meters above sea level, stretching an area stretching from the Indian territory Ladakh to the Chinese-controlled Tibet, in the greater Kashmir region where India, China and Pakistan all claim territory.

In 1962, India and China went to war over this remote, inhospitable piece of land and eventually established the Line of Actual Control (LAC), the de facto border set by Pangong Tso. However, the two countries do not agree on the exact location of the LAC, and both regularly accuse the other of exceeding it, or trying to expand their territory. Since then, they have had a history of mostly non-lethal disputes over the position of the border.

In September, the two countries agreed to stop sending more troops to the border, following an increase in tensions between New Delhi and Beijing. The situation was temporarily resolved while the two parties held several rounds of talks.

New satellite images show Chinese troops dismantling camps on the disputed Indian border

According to the Indian Army, another “minor” face broke out between the two parties in January, although it was said to have been “resolved by local commanders according to established protocols.”

On February 10, the Chinese Ministry of Defense said the two countries along the south and north coasts of Pangong Tso began to disengage after reaching an agreement with India.

According to satellite images, China withdrew troops, demolished infrastructure and evacuated camps along the disputed border.

Satellite photos taken by US-based Maxar Technologies on January 30 showed a number of Chinese deployments along Pangong Tso. In new images taken Tuesday, dozens of vehicles and building structures that left empty ground were removed.

CNN’s Brad Lendon, James Griffiths and Jessie Yeung reported.

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