China’s losses in the high-altitude 2020 Galwan Valley border clash with India - the deadliest confrontation between the two giants in over four decades - were much higher than reported with many soldiers drowning while crossing a fast-flowing, sub-zero river in darkness, new research claims.
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However evidence provided by a group of social media researchers, which
The Klaxon has independently built on, appears to support claims that China’s casualties extended well beyond the four soldiers named by Beijing.
It also shows extreme lengths Beijing has gone to in order to silence discussion about the battle - in particular, discussion about the true number Chinese casualties.
Beijing awarded the four medals on February 19 last year.
The following day, February 20, the Chinese Government issued a statement that a 38-year-old Nanjing journalist “Qiu Moumou” would be departing Chinese newspaper the Economic Observer for having “questioned the number of PLA (People’s Liberation Army) casualties in Galwan”.
It included a statement from China’s Economic Observer which said the journalist had posted “harmful content about current affairs” and engaged in “defaming heroes”.
“His words and deeds have nothing to do with the Economic Observer,” it said.
Other
reports at the time said the reporter was arrested by China’s Ministry of State Security after making online claims, including to his 2.5 million Weibo followers, that China was lying and vastly understating its Galwan Valley casualties.
What was told by (China) to the world were mostly fabricated stories.
The PLA soldiers didn’t even have time to wear water pants. They decided to cross the icy water of the river in pitch dark under the guidance of Wang.
“The river rose suddenly and injured comrades kept slipping and (being) washed downstream”.
The report states: “Information gathered by a blogger from people who attended Wang’s funeral at Luohe Martyrs Cemetary, Henan, reveals that Junior Sergeant Wang Zhuoran pushed four of his comrades across the river successfully but his legs became stuck by stones at the bottom of the river.”
“As of this date there is no information about them anywhere in Chinese cyberspace.