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'Minor' Face-off Between India, PLA Troops in Sikkim's Naku La, Resolved by Local Commanders: Army

Indian's reporting of the incident.

"Many more injuries on Chinese side.
Indians thrashed Chinese soldiers. "


Funny Indians.
"Tangain kaanp rahi hai, definitely".
 
File photo of a Chinese soldier and Indian soldier at the Nathu La border crossing between India and China.


Associated Press in Srinagar
Mon 25 Jan 2021 11.00 GMT


The clash in the Naku La area of Sikkim came four days before India and China held a ninth round of talks on Sunday on ending tensions in another contested border area in the remote Ladakh region.


The Indian army described the clash at Naku La as “a minor face off” and said it “was resolved by local commanders as per established protocols”.

An army statement on Monday did not provide any other details, but asked media “to refrain from overplaying or exaggerating” the incident.

The Chinese foreign ministry spokesperson Zhao Lijian said he did not have information on the incident but urged India “not to take any unilateral action that may further complicate or exacerbate the border tension”.

Since a deadly clash last year, soldiers from the two sides have brawled occasionally and fired shots for the first time in decades, breaking a longstanding agreement not to use firearms during border confrontations.

Two Indian security officials said at least 18 Chinese soldiers had tried to cross into Indian-claimed territory at Naku La last Wednesday night and had been blocked by Indian soldiers, leading to clashes with sticks and stones. The officials, who spoke on condition of anonymity because of the sensitivity of the issue and in keeping with government regulations, said soldiers on both sides were carrying firearms but did not use them.

The two officials said more than a dozen Indian soldiers and at least eight Chinese soldiers had received minor injuries.

There was no independent confirmation of the incident.

Both sides rushed more soldiers to the area in an “aggressive deployment” that swelled the number of personnel to hundreds, the officials said.

India and China have been locked in a tense military standoff since May, high in the Karakoram mountains, with troops settling in for the harsh winter. Both sides have mobilised tens of thousands of soldiers, artillery and fighter aircraft along the fiercely contested border known as the Line of Actual Control, or LAC, that separates Chinese and Indian-held territories from Ladakh in the west to India’s eastern state of Arunachal Pradesh, which China claims in its entirety.

The frontier is broken in parts where the Himalayan nations of Nepal and Bhutan border China, and where Sikkim, the site of the latest brawl, is sandwiched.

The LAC divides areas of physical control rather than territorial claims. Despite more than three dozen rounds of talks over the years and multiple meetings between the Indian prime minister, Narendra Modi, and the Chinese president, Xi Jinping, they are nowhere near settling the dispute.


The standoff began last May with a fierce brawl, and exploded into hand-to-hand combat with clubs, stones and fists on 15 June that left 20 Indian soldiers dead. China is believed to also have had casualties, but has not given any details.

Indian and Chinese army commanders met for the ninth round of talks after a gap of two and a half months in Ladakh on Sunday but neither side released any details of the outcome.


 
Is this why Indian Army chief was saying hes stressed a couple of days back?

They’ve been really stressed since last year when they had that clash with China in Galwan. It was a watershed moment. 30 years of intensive oppression of the Kashmiri people has depleted their institutional knowledge of conventional warfare. India has grown accustomed to fighting against small adversaries and resolving the conflicts at a negotiating table, which they seem to be attempting to do with China, and failing.

What the Indians don’t understand is China has decided India has volunteered itself to be the chicken that gets killed to scare the monkeys (its other more powerful adversaries). Xi has made several trips to India to build a good relationship, while India has stopped being neutral and moved into the western camp (which Russia also doesn’t appreciate).

Now India has to prepare for the possibility of war with an adversary that has the financial and technological overmatch to do serious harm to India. Modi’s bravado has cost India a lot over these few short years. It’s not surprising Indian generals are at a loss for words.

 
I heard you people were delusional, thinking Americans would want to ever live in your hellhole, let alone as refugees.

It is to laugh..
Where did you hear it? Does the Communist State blast such news over megaphones across the country to prevent more Chinese from coming into India as refugees?
 
RSS bots and Indian state propraganda immediately invents dozen of casualities on Chinas side out of thin air to cope with fears of Indian casualities in a clash that Indian media invented and after it turns out the clash never happend they blame Chinas media 😂
 
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Two Indian security officials said at least 18 Chinese soldiers tried to cross into Indian-claimed territory at Naku La last Wednesday night and were blocked by Indian soldiers, leading to clashes with sticks and stones. The officials, who spoke on condition of anonymity because of the sensitivity of the issue and in keeping with government regulations, said soldiers on both sides were carrying firearms but did not use them.
The two officials said over a dozen Indian soldiers and at least eight Chinese soldiers received minor injuries.
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