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China accuses India of intimidation with weapons at border

2020-09-08T05:12:37.480Z


China accused Tuesday (September 8) the Indian army of having illegally crossed its border in the Himalayas and of having resorted to " warning shots ", after a deadly clash in June between the two Asian giants. Read also: How, step by step, Beijing is moving forward in the Himalayas Old border disputes pit neighboring powers against the roof of the world. They were fueled in mid-June by an extr


China accused Tuesday (September 8) the Indian army of having illegally crossed its border in the Himalayas and of having resorted to "

warning shots

", after a deadly clash in June between the two Asian giants.

Read also: How, step by step, Beijing is moving forward in the Himalayas

Old border disputes pit neighboring powers against the roof of the world.

They were fueled in mid-June by an extremely rare shock, at an altitude of more than 4000 meters, between Indian and Chinese soldiers in Ladakh (northern India).

The clash left 20 dead on the Indian side and an unknown number of victims in the Chinese ranks.

The deaths of Indian soldiers sparked outrage in their country.

"

Warning shots

"

In a statement released on Tuesday, the Chinese Defense Ministry accused India of "

serious military provocation

" after

soldiers

crossed the border the day before, who then "

fired warning shots

".

Chinese border defense troops have been forced to take appropriate countermeasures to stabilize the situation on the ground,

” adds the text, which does not specify the nature of the measures.

New Delhi had not reacted immediately.

Read also: Coronavirus: India becomes the 2nd country in the world in number of cases

The Line

of Actual Control (

LAC), the de facto border between India and China, is not properly demarcated.

This situation can lead Chinese and Indian soldiers to encounters where each thinks the other is breaking the line.

After the clash of June 15, senior officials of the Chinese and Indian armies met and agreed to work to ease tensions.

On Friday, the defense ministers of the two countries had a meeting in Moscow on the sidelines of an international meeting.

But the two men then accused each other of inflaming the situation, by press releases.

The last open conflict between the two most populous nations on the planet dates back to the 1962 blitzkrieg, which saw Indian troops quickly defeated by the Chinese military.

Officially, no shots have been fired along the border since 1975, in accordance with a long-standing practice aimed at avoiding a real military confrontation in this border region.

Source: lefigaro

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