China’s Foreign Ministry has denied any casualties in the recent India-China border clashes. The situation in the zone where the recent clashes took place was relatively calm on Wednesday. The second round of brigadier-level talks between the Indian and Chinese militaries began amid mutual condemnation from the diplomatic establishments on both sides to consult on ways to reduce border tensions.
Chinese Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Hua Chunying said Wednesday (Sept. 2) that no Indian troops were killed in the clashes. She said the Indian statement “proves that the incident is a provocation by Indian troops who illegally crossed the border and unilaterally changed the status quo in the border region.
Indian and Chinese troops have recently clashed again in the Himalayas along the border between the two countries. However, both sides have been vague in their descriptions of how the clashes took place. According to the Indian government, Chinese soldiers entered the southern shore of Bangong Tso Lake in the Ladakh region last Saturday (August 29) in violation of an earlier agreement and attempted to occupy the area, while Indian troops pre-empted the communists’ “attempt to change the status quo” by reinforcing Indian positions.
According to the Chinese military, the Indian military undermined the consensus reached at the earlier multi-level talks between the two sides and illegally crossed the line to occupy the southern shore of Lake Bangong Tso (located on the border between Tibet and Kashmir; India calls it “Bangong Tso Lake”) near the Rechin Pass again. The PLA’s Western Theater spokesman, Colonel Zhang Zhucui, said: “(The Indian Army) is openly provoking and causing tension on the border.
Neither side mentioned any casualties in the initial stages of the conflict. But on Tuesday, AFP reported that Namghyal Dolkar Lhagyari, a member of the Tibetan parliament-in-exile, said that an Indian soldier of Tibetan descent had died in Saturday night’s clashes. Lhagyari told AFP that India’s Special Frontier Force, which includes many Tibetans who oppose China’s entry into their homeland, also included a member who was wounded in the clashes.
In June of this year, Chinese and Indian troops engaged in a fierce cold-weapons battle in the Garhwan Valley. Twenty Indian troops were killed and dozens more wounded in the clash. The Chinese have not released the PLA’s casualty figures, but multiple analyses suggest that they are roughly the same as those on the Indian side.
According to Indian media reports, the Indian military is currently reinforcing its border guards with weapons and troop movements.
The Indian Express (Indian Express) quoted a senior Indian military official as saying that the Indian military is reinforcing its weaponry and “whatever is needed for a particular area will be provided.” “This could be mountain infantry, or plain infantry, it will always be the most suitable weaponry.”
Also according to Reuters, the Indian Army is also mobilizing. Ayushi Sudan, in charge of Anjaw district in India’s Arunachal Pradesh state, said the troops were being moved to Anjaw, which is located east of the India-China border.
Anjaw is in the eastern part of the India-China border and the western part of the Garhwan Valley, where bloodshed broke out in June, said Ayushi Sudan, who is in charge of Anjaw. Ayushi said the troop redeployment could signal a possible widening of the border conflict between the two countries.
Reuters quoted Ayush as saying, “More troops have been deployed after the Garhwan incident.”
However, Indian Defense Ministry spokesman Lt. Col. Harsh Wardhan Pande said that these were routine movements and not a cause for concern.
He said that these are general troop movements and nothing special about them.
There have been no movements of Chinese troops yet. However, the Indian military says they have spotted Chinese military convoy activity at the Chuma Fortress in the disputed area of Ladakh.
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