Chinese Communist Party officials confirmed Friday (19) that four officers and soldiers were killed in action during last year’s military clashes along the Sino-Indian border. Subsequently, a microblogger, Qiu Ziming, questioned whether more soldiers had been killed or injured, but Qiu was criminally detained by officials on suspicion of provocation and harassment. The latest news is that a man in Beijing was also arrested on the night of February 20 for making disparaging remarks about border officials and soldiers.
According to reports in the Chinese media, police in Beijing’s Haidian District arrested Chen Mouqiang (male, 28) at 9 p.m. on Feb. 20 after he was reported by other people for posting insulting and defamatory comments about border guards in a WeChat group.
But the report did not disclose the specific content of Chen’s posts on the WeChat group.
Chen Mouqiang was criminally detained on suspicion of picking quarrels and provoking trouble, while police said they would firmly and severely punish him.
This is not the first case of arrests for denigrating border guard officers and soldiers.
On February 19, the Chinese Communist Party’s military newspaper reported that the situation on the Sino-Indian border heated up steeply beginning in April 2020; in June, during clashes between the two sides, the commander, Qi Fa Bao, was seriously injured; battalion commander Chen Hongjun, and soldiers Chen Xiangrong, Xiao Siyuan, and Wang Zhuo Ran died. This is the first official announcement by the Chinese Communist Party of casualty figures in the India-China conflict.
On the evening of the 19th, Qiu Ziming, a former Shanghai-based reporter for the Economic Observer newspaper who goes by the screen name “Hot Pen Little Ball,” was also criminally detained by Nanjing police on suspicion of provoking and provoking trouble for posting comments about fallen soldiers that day.
Qiu Ziming flirted with “the biggest officer – the chief survived” and questioned the fact that there were more than just four officers and soldiers killed in action, because the four people killed in action were the ones who went to the rescue, indicating that there were others who were not rescued.
On Feb. 19, Qiu Ziming posted comments flirting with fallen soldiers as well as questioning the number of fallen. (Web screenshot composite)
It is reported that on the evening of June 15, 2020, the worst deadly clash between Chinese and Indian troops in 45 years erupted in the Galwan Valley in the western section of the border, leaving at least 20 Indian soldiers dead. The Chinese government has not released the number of dead and wounded since the incident.
U.S. media outlet News & World Report reported on June 16, 2020, that according to U.S. intelligence reports, 35 Chinese soldiers were killed and seriously wounded. The Times of India, however, cited anonymous information that 43 Chinese soldiers had been killed or injured.
However, the Chinese Communist authorities have questioned Qiu Ziming, not only by placing him in criminal detention, but also by using agencies at all levels to besiege him through Weibo, from the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection to local public security agencies, and including mouthpieces such as the People’s Daily. Even, the land media speculated that it is estimated that Qiu Ziming may be sentenced to three years in prison after the court hearing.
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