Thousands of Indian and Chinese troops have been locked in a high-altitude face-off in India’s Ladakh region since last year, despite the two militaries holding more than a dozen rounds of talks to diffuse the situation. Long said he hoped India would not “misjudge the situation” and would work with China to maintain peace in the area. Deployments by the two sides were enhanced after clashes in June 2020, when 20 Indian soldiers were killed when soldiers fought with iron rods and stones in Ladakh’s Galwan Valley. China also suffered an unspecified number of casualties, in the first combat losses for both countries on the border in 45 years. The two countries, which fought a border war in 1962, have over-lapping claims to large areas of territory along the frontier.

Source: Philippine Daily Inquirer October 11, 2021 07:07 UTC