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10 captives, Over 20 soldiers, including Commanding Officer killed at Galwan border clash with China

American intelligence: 35 Chinese troops killed in Ladakh
India, China Face Off in First Deadly Clash in Decades

Tensions between the two Asian powers are poised to escalate at a time of shifting influence in the region.
By Paul D. Shinkman, Senior Writer, National Security June 16, 2020



The Times of India reported hat 20 Indian army personnel had died in the fighting.

American intelligence believes 35 Chinese troops died, including one senior officer, a source familiar with that assessment tells U.S. News. The incident took place during a meeting in the mountainous region between the two sides – both of which had agreed to disarm – to determine how the two militaries would safely withdraw their presences from the region.

The meeting grew tense and resulted in a physical confrontation between the troops. According to the assessment, all of the casualties were from the use of batons and knives and from falls from the steep topography, the source says.

According to the U.S. assessment, the Chinese government considers the casualties among their troops as a humiliation for its armed forces and has not confirmed the numbers for fear of emboldening other adversaries, the source says.

The sources who spoke with the Times said 43 Chinese troops died in the fighting.

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Tensions have mounted in recent weeks around the area spanning in the northern India region of Ladakh and the southwestern Chinese region of Aksai Chin.

The border dispute comes at a time of shifting influence in the region. Beijing has become increasingly bold in its territorial ambitions in recent months, including in the East and South China seas, with U.S. officials saying it has successfully exploited global unrest from the ongoing coronavirus pandemic. At the same time India has enjoyed new and outsized support from the U.S. under the Trump administration, which sees India as a principal battleground for its own economic rivalry with China.

In an editorial in the semi-official Global Times, China said the tensions were caused by "arrogance and recklessness of the Indian side" and that officials there believed "their country's military is more powerful than China's." However the main focus of Beijing's ire was clear.

"The U.S. has wooed India with its Indo-Pacific Strategy, which adds to the abovementioned misjudgment of some Indian elite," according to the outlet, which is not a direct mouthpiece of the Chinese Communist Party but is considered aligned with its views. "New Delhi must be clear that the resources that the U.S. would invest in China-India relations are limited. What the U.S. would do is just extend a lever to India, which Washington can exploit to worsen India's ties with China, and make India dedicate itself to serving Washington's interests."

The Times of India documented harsh conditions at the site of the fighting in the mountainous region, including sub-freezing temperatures and high altitudes. The government there has claimed the face-off "was the result of an attempt by the Chinese side to unilaterally change the status quo of the region," the Times reported. It also cited a statement from a Chinese military spokesperson who reportedly said, "China always owns sovereignty over the Galwan Valley region."

Troops from the two countries last clashed in 1975, when four Indian soldiers died during an ambush in the Arunachal Pradesh region of northeast India.

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The U.S. government had not publicly commented on the skirmish as of Tuesday afternoon.

Trump visited India in February, further strengthening already close ties with Prime Minister Narendra Modi. The Trump administration has dramatically ramped up relations with New Delhi, including growing its trade relations and shifting its military policy. The U.S. in 2018 renamed its combatant command for the area "Indo-Pacific Command" – considered a break from prior administrations attempts to balance relations with India with its regional rivals, including Pakistan.


Paul D. Shinkman, Senior Writer, National Security

Paul Shinkman is a national security correspondent. He joined U.S. News & World Report in 2012 ...


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Actually, C17 weren't destined to Mumbai...I think the one which I lost went further south as this one is also going.

Perhaps to Thanjavur as one took off from there:
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Sure because -

9/11 was done by Jews
26/11 was done by Hindus
Osama is not in Pakistan
Americans and Chinese are coming to save Dacca
Our three time PM is a RAW agent
And you just got your *** handed to you by the chinese and Pakistan was carved out of india. There is nothing you can do but talk. 20 plus dead and dying and you are talking. No action. Super duper phat gyee
 
As per the reports, Indian casualties might increase because 7-8 are critically injured.
 
I'm sorry but this literally confirms ANI is a bull**** source. The death of one commanding officer (the Indian colonel) was already pretty rare but the death of another from the opposing side? Sounds super suspect ...
targeted revenge raid
 
The brotherhood is paved with blood of our ancestors. We fought for Ottomans, we gave our blood, our lives and our wealth; everything we had for Ottomans. Even when people from within wanted an end of caliphate, we started a pan-Islamist political movement to restore Ottoman Caliphate and got jailed and humiliated by British for this; but you won't understand.

Thank you for your sentiments brother. Check this thread out.

https://defence.pk/pdf/threads/is-pak-sending-fighter-jets-to-libya.671378/


Let's try to stay on topic here.

Turkey changes allies very quickly. They were anti-Chinese, anti-Russian, anti-American, and then tried to mend relations with them. In Erdogan's mind, apart from Pakistan, no country is truly ally. As long as the Uighur issue is not resolved, Turkey will forever be a slow explosive bomb for China.

I have reported you for peddling lies and derailing thread.
 
the same chinese media works overnight to dish out warnings and threats to the world is sitting so silent.... :lol:

entire night the helicopters were lifting dead bodies and injured soldiers .... but hay casualties are zero. They all bought back to life or cured by a magic potion....

your local people have right to know the casualties when their only son is being sent to do the duties... that only son is now disappeared and will come back in a body bag.

this is exactly how the media blacked out in china when the wuhan virus spread. all the whistle blowers were silenced or killed.

xi' regime will be coming to and end prematurely it seems..... he is a complete failure on all fronts.
 
I don't believe that, otherwise they have no reason to support us in Kashmir and to help us in Afghanistan.

Anyway let's stay on topic.

I let it go for now but don't further fake news. You have been doing it the whole thread.


That's why you slander others for being "fake news". I just said the thoughts of the individual and never said it was "absolutely right" or "it is news". And you claim it is fake news, then threaten to denounce MOD

You have your own opinion. Other people have their own thoughts. And you threaten to denounce others because their thoughts are not the same as yours.

Lies and hypocrisy

Report if you like. I do not care
 
Dude, checked my previous post, that Global times lady Wang cited the Indian source yesterday.
Soliders fall from the mountain and freezed to death and sounds like you have the absoutely control over the battlefield,interesting.
That same source was the ANI source ... which is the same source that is magically revising up the Chinese count whenever the Indian count goes up.
 
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