The Indian Army announced in a statement on Monday that Chinese soldiers had invaded the country on their mutual border in the Himalayas, resulting in a violent clash that left, according to some reports, dozens of soldiers injured.
China’s People’s Liberation Army (PLA) on Friday advertised an upcoming raffle via social media in which it plans to give away a stone taken from the Galwan Valley in northern India’s Ladakh state to “10 lucky netizens,” China’s state-run Global Times reported.
A Hindu group filed a police complaint against social media platform Twitter on Tuesday over a map that showed India’s Ladakh region as part of China, a year after the two countries fought a deadly battle there.
China’s state-run Global Times on Thursday dismissed reports this week of a recent military buildup by China along its border with India as a “routine” activity. “[I]t is routine for the Indian and Chinese armies to make deployments along the border
Amid mounting tensions over territorial claims in the Himalayas with India, the Chinese military has been setting up military positions along the Line of Actual Control (LAC) — an informal line that functionally serves as a border — with at least 20 such encampments already in place, the Times of India (TOI) reports.
The U.S. recently sent the Indian Army extreme cold weather clothing for its troops deployed on the border with China in the western Himalayas, reports revealed Tuesday.
Twitter apologized on Monday for a “technical issue” that somehow caused the geolocation tag for a live broadcast to identify the Indian regions of Jammu and Kashmir as part of the People’s Republic of China (PRC).
Indian Defense Minister Rajnath Singh said on Monday that China and Pakistan are on a “mission” to create disputes along their shared borders with India.
Video footage surfaced on Sunday depicting soldiers of China’s People’s Liberation Army (PLA) crying on a bus while allegedly en route to the Indian border territory of Ladakh, a disputed area which has seen several recent clashes between the militaries of the two countries, Taiwan News reports.
Indian Defense Minister Rajnath Singh said on Tuesday that the budget for building roads and bridges along the Chinese border will be doubled in response to China’s rapid infrastructure improvements on the other side.
Indian Minister of External Affairs Subrahmanyam Jaishanka and Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi issued a statement late Thursday agreeing to “disengage” on the nations’ mutual border after a tense summer marked by deadly military scuffles in the Himalayas.
The Communist Party of China accused the Indian military of firing shots across their mutual border on Tuesday, a claim New Delhi refuted, instead accusing China’s People’s Liberation Army (PLA) of firing their weapons.
India sent a four-star army general to its northern Ladakh territory on Thursday to oversee troops’ operational readiness amid an escalating border dispute with China. On Tuesday, Tibetan officials said an ethnic Tibetan commander in the Indian Army was killed on
A report published by Nikkei Asian Review (NAR) on Thursday asserted that Chinese dictator Xi Jinping is planning “another brutal purge” of his military leadership.
Chinese state media on Monday claimed Indian troops invaded Chinese territory by crossing the Line of Actual Control (LAC), the disputed border in the Ladakh region of the Himalayas that was the scene of a deadly brawl between Chinese and Indian troops in June.
A report citing anonymous Indian military sources on Thursday revealed that the government of Prime Minister Narendra Modi will deploy 35,000 troops to the nation’s border with China, the same day China claimed both sides had largely “disengaged” there.
Indian Defense Minister Rajnath Singh visited his country’s border with China on Friday, inspecting the Ladakh region where communist People’s Liberation Army (PLA) soldiers attacked their Indian counterparts with sticks and rocks last month.
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi visited the border between his country and China on Friday, delivering a speech thanking the country’s soldiers for defending against a Chinese attack that left nearly two dozen dead despite the absence of firearms.
New satellite images from the India-China border show China has expanded two of its nearby heliports, with one located just ten miles northeast of the shared boundary, the Times of India (TOI) reported on Tuesday.
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi said during a radio interview on Sunday that a “befitting reply” has been given to invaders who “covet our territories,” referring to the hand-to-hand battle on June 15 along the contested Indian-Chinese border in which at least 20 Indian soldiers and an unknown number of Chinese troops were killed. India maintains China provoked the confrontation by crossing the border and trying to set up observation posts on Indian territory.
Satellite images of the Ladakh region in the western Himalayas show Chinese construction activity picking up in the week following a deadly clash between Indian and Chinese forces along the disputed border.
China’s Foreign Ministry dismissed reports on Tuesday that as many as 40 People’s Liberation Army (PLA) soldiers died in a hand-to-hand brawl with Indian troops on their mutual border last week, insisting it was “false information.”
India’s efforts to boycott Chinese goods in response to a border clash in eastern Ladakh, is “slowly but surely” taking off, India’s WION News reported Tuesday.
Indian police officials said on Tuesday they have charted “at least 40,300 cyber attacks” in the past four to five days against infrastructure and banking targets. The bulk of these attacks allegedly originated in China, which currently has very tense relations with India after a deadly clash along the disputed border in the Himalayas.
The Chinese army likely suffered “more than twice” the casualties of the Indian army in a recent Himalayan border clash, including a Chinese commanding officer, the Hindustan Times reported on Monday, citing sources within the Indian military.
India’s Ministry of Commerce and Industry issued an order on Tuesday making it mandatory for all sellers to indicate the country of origin for products registered on GeM, the Government e-Marketplace. The order was presented as part of the “Make in India” initiative, but was more bluntly interpreted as “not made in China.”
Chinese state media on Monday continued pumping out a stream of belligerent editorials chiding India for believing its soldiers could possibly defeat the invincible People’s Liberation Army (PLA), a propaganda counterattack against Indian officials who claim their troops did exactly that in last week’s Ladakh border clash.
The Indian Army posted a video to social media over the weekend honoring the 20 Indian soldiers attacked and killed last week by Chinese border troops in the western Himalayas. The video appears to deliberately insult China with a reference to “bats,” the Times of India (TOI) reported on Monday.
India will urge Russia to hasten the delayed delivery of an anti-missile system during Indian Defense Minister Rajnath Singh’s three-day visit to Russia this week, the Economic Times of India reported on Monday.
China’s state-run Global Times stressed the importance of “de-escalating tensions” along the Indian border in a Monday editorial… which concluded with belligerent threats to “smash” the Indians unless their troops “remain sober” and their political elites “keep rational.”
A week after a fierce hand-to-hand battle erupted between Indian and Chinese soldiers along the Line of Actual Control (LAC) in eastern Ladakh, the Chinese government admitted to its first casualty on Monday, a commanding officer of the People’s Liberation Army (PLA).
Indian news sources reported on Wednesday that as many as 50 Chinese People’s Liberation Army (PLA) fighters died in an hours-long brawl between the two countries’ border soldiers on Monday. China has admitted only to “casualties” without providing a number.
