In early September, up to 200 shots were fired on the China-India border.

Just days before the Moscow peace talks between the Chinese and Indian foreign ministers on the 10th, border guards from India and China clashed on the north shore of Lake Pangong earlier this month. The two sides fired 100 to 200 shots. They were in Qiushu, on the southern shore of Pangong Lake, on the 7th. The Chushul shooting incident remained serious.

According to a report by New Delhi Television (NDTV) and Indian Express on the 16th, sources said the incident occurred when Indian troops took a key action to establish an outpost with a view to the PLA. A senior government official who knew the details of the incident said the turning point was that Chinese and Indian forces competed for the strategic mountain on the north shore of Pangong Lake.

He said that at the time, troops from both sides were less than 500 meters apart and fired into the air near the ridges of Finger 3 and Finger 4, firing 100-200 rounds.

According to the BBC report, the locals called the spiny ridge stretching from Pangong Tso “finger”, and Pangong Tso has 8 fingers. Indian media reported that India has always controlled 1-4 fingers, while China has controlled 5-8 fingers, which is also an area where clashes often occur.

However, both China and India issued statements regarding the incident of the smallest Chushuer shooting on the 7th. Authorities said this is the first time that shots have been heard near the “Line of Royal Control” (LAC) in the undecided border between China and India in 45 years. However, neither Chinese nor Indian officials have mentioned the largest shooting incident on the north shore of Pangong Lake.

Satellite images showed last week that not only the People’s Liberation Army had construction activities on the north shore of Pangong Lake, but a new Chinese outpost appeared on the south shore near the “royal line of control.”

Senior Indian officials said that while the Chinese and Indian ground forces are still tense, they are not as tense as at the beginning of the month. He noted that in early September there were many activities on the north and south shores of Pangong Lake, and there were also “many” shootings. However, one incident was small in scale and the Indian Army believed it was not serious enough to report it.

(Zhongshi News Network)