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Source: UK Defence Ministry intelligence review dated 16 January on X (formerly Twitter); European Pravda
Details: The UK Defence Ministry noted that over the past…
The incidents involved hand-to-hand combat and came as New Delhi and Beijing held a series of diplomatic and military talks to resolve their worst military conflict in decades.
No deaths were reported in these incidents. At least 20 Indian soldiers and four Chinese troops were killed in clashes in the area two years previously, in mid-2020.
These skirmishes in India’s Ladakh region, the last of which is now known to have happened in November 2022, show that the tensions along the undemarcated border continued much longer than previously reported.
The Indian and Chinese armies did not immediately respond to requests for comment.
Details of the new clashes emerged after the Indian Army awarded gallantry medals to some of its soldiers, who it said challenged Chinese troops trying to enter Indian territory in at least two incidents in 2022.
In the first incident in January 2022, according to a citation, “several soldiers of the People’s Liberation Army attacked” an Indian Army post in the eastern Ladakh region.
During physical jostling, an Indian soldier wounded at least four Chinese troops and snatched their rifles, “forcing them to go back,” it said.
In the second incident in November 2022, Indian troops pushed back “a group of 40 to 50 soldiers” trying to enter Indian territory. A unit of Indian soldiers attacked and injured them, “thus foiling the enemy’s plan to capture the post,” another citation said.
The citations also said army units of the two countries were involved in a two-day standoff in an unspecified area in 2022.
The military and diplomatic discussions between the nuclear-armed neighbors to resolve the standoff that began in mid-2020 have not resulted in a final resolution yet.
The India-China border dispute dates to the 1950s and the two sides fought a brief but bloody war over it in 1962.
The incidents involved hand-to-hand combat and came as New Delhi and Beijing held a series of diplomatic and military talks to resolve their worst military conflict in decades.
No deaths were reported in these incidents. At least 20 Indian soldiers and four Chinese troops were killed in clashes in the area two years previously, in mid-2020.
These skirmishes in India’s Ladakh region, the last of which is now known to have happened in November 2022, show that the tensions along the undemarcated border continued much longer than previously reported.
The Indian and Chinese armies did not immediately respond to requests for comment.
Details of the new clashes emerged after the Indian Army awarded gallantry medals to some of its soldiers, who it said challenged Chinese troops trying to enter Indian territory in at least two incidents in 2022.
In the first incident in January 2022, according to a citation, “several soldiers of the People’s Liberation Army attacked” an Indian Army post in the eastern Ladakh region.
During physical jostling, an Indian soldier wounded at least four Chinese troops and snatched their rifles, “forcing them to go back,” it said.
In the second incident in November 2022, Indian troops pushed back “a group of 40 to 50 soldiers” trying to enter Indian territory. A unit of Indian soldiers attacked and injured them, “thus foiling the enemy’s plan to capture the post,” another citation said.
The citations also said army units of the two countries were involved in a two-day standoff in an unspecified area in 2022.
The military and diplomatic discussions between the nuclear-armed neighbors to resolve the standoff that began in mid-2020 have not resulted in a final resolution yet.
The India-China border dispute dates to the 1950s and the two sides fought a brief but bloody war over it in 1962.
