At least 20 Indian soldiers were beaten to death on Monday in a clash with Chinese border forces in the Galwan Valley of the Ladakh region. In May, near Lake Pangong Tso, melees broke out several times and Indian soldiers were badly injured. Similar stories of military clashes between India and China over their 3,500-kilometer frontier have been repeated for the last six decades.
Sixty years ago, there was no such thing as a border conflict between India and China, because Tibet was a buffer zone between the two giant Asian countries. The first-ever Indo-China war, over a border conflict, occurred in 1962, three years after China completely occupied Tibet in 1959. Chinese troops advanced against unprepared Indian forces in two Himalayan border posts, killed more than 1,000 Indian soldiers and imprisoned more than 3,000. Read More…
