Three Indian Soldiers Killed By Chinese Forces, Border Dispute Heats Up

Soldier illustration (Credit: Chuanchai Pundej / Unsplash)

JAKARTA - Three Indian soldiers were killed in clashes on the Chinese border last night. Previously, relations between the two countries were heating up due to border disputes. This problem makes each country deploy its troops to the outer line of the country.

"During the de-escalation process, in the Galwan Valley, a fierce battle that claimed casualties occurred last night. The Indian side who died, included an officer and two soldiers. Senior military officials from both sides are currently meeting at the venue to defuse them. situation, "according to a statement by a spokesman for the Indian army, quoted by Aljazeera.

Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Zhao Lijian explained how the incident happened. According to him, before the incident occurred, Indian troops crossed the Chinese border twice.

"Provoking and attacking Chinese personnel, resulted in a serious physical confrontation between border forces on both sides," said Lijian, quoted by SCMP.

As is known, along the 3,488 km border between the two warring countries there is no mark. Troops, tanks and armored personnel carriers were on both sides at several locations after troops clashed several times in the disputed area.

Asian countries have taken steps to reduce tensions between the two countries over the past six weeks, after the countries' senior military commanders held talks this month. Chinese diplomat Hua Chunying said last week Beijing had reached a positive agreement with New Delhi to defuse the situation.

Meanwhile, India, on Sunday, June 14, said the two countries agreed to resolve the issue peacefully. China started a consolidation effort with India in 2017 at Doklam, where troops faced off against each other for 73 days.

In addition, Chinese President Xi Jinping and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi have met at the informal Summit twice. The first conference was held in Wuhan in 2018 and continued last year in Mamallapuram.

From that meeting, both of them promised not to clash if there was a vote in trade and foreign policy. However, now each side seems to be trying to build nationalistic sentiment.

Indian opposition leaders, for example, urged Modi to confront "Chinese aggression". Congress leader Rahun Gandhi from the opposition accused prime minister Modi of "missing" in handling the problem.