India accuses China of ‘violating borders’

India has accused China of violating the border consensus reached between the two sides in recent peace negotiations.

He said the Chinese military had taken “provocative military moves” to change the status quo in Ladakh.

At least 20 Indian soldiers were killed in clashes with Chinese troops in the area in June. China has yet to say whether its troops have suffered losses.

The two nuclear powers accuse each other of crossing the incomplete divided border and provoking war.

China has yet to respond to the latest accusations from India, following several rounds of peace talks between the two sides since June.

Delhi says that Indian troops have “preemptively” Chinese operations on the “southern shore of Pangong Tso Lake” on the night of August 29.

“We have taken steps to strengthen our stance and prevent China’s unilateral intentions to change the truth,” the Indian government said.

India added that Delhi was committed to promoting peace negotiations, but was “equally determined to protect territorial integrity.” Analysts said such a public announcement from India showed that relative peace on the border had been broken.

Media reports said that the armies of the two sides clashed on ridges at an altitude of almost 4,300 meters on steep terrain, and some Indian soldiers fell into the rapidly flowing Galwan River at nearby temperatures. equal to zero.

At least 76 Indian soldiers were injured in addition to the 20 killed. China has not released any information on its side’s casualties.

The fighting took place without weapons due to a 1996 agreement that bans weapons and explosives in the area.

Since then, the two sides have held many talks at the military and diplomatic level to resolve the problem. But they continue to accuse each other of constantly building on the border.

Small clashes have also been reported and analysts say the situation has been stable in the region since June.

The realistic control limit, the name of the border in dispute between the two states, is poorly defined. The presence of rivers, lakes and snowflakes means that the boundaries are subject to change.

Soldiers from both sides, representing two of the world’s largest armies, clash at multiple points.

India accuses China of sending thousands of soldiers to the Galwan Ladakh valley and says China occupies 38,000 square kilometers of its territory. Several rounds of negotiations over the past three decades have failed to resolve the border disputes.

So far, the two countries have only had one war, in 1962, when India suffered a humiliating defeat.

There are various reasons why the tension has risen lately, but the root cause is the strategic objective of the competition, with both parties blaming each other.

India’s new path in the areas that experts say are the most remote and vulnerable along the border in Ladakh, could help Delhi’s rapid human and material mobility in the event of an incident. conflict.

Analysts say India’s decision to beef up infrastructure appears to have angered Beijing.