{"id":209088,"date":"2020-06-21T09:03:16","date_gmt":"2020-06-21T09:03:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=209088"},"modified":"2020-06-23T07:11:51","modified_gmt":"2020-06-23T07:11:51","slug":"china-lays-claim-to-the-entire-galwan-valley-on-himalayan-border","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=209088","title":{"rendered":"China lays claim to the entire Galwan Valley on Himalayan border"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\"><strong>China has laid claim to the entire Galwan Valley on the Himalayan border at the center of Sino-Indian dispute<\/strong><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\"><strong>Satellite\u00a0images appear to show China bringing in machinery and damming a river at the disputed border\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\"><strong>Indian troops recently built a new 200ft bridge over the river on their side of the Line of Actual Control\u00a0 \u00a0<\/strong><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\"><strong>India says 20 soldiers were killed when troops fought with clubs and fists at 14,000 feet in the Himalayas\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Emer Scully and Tim Stickings \u2013 Daily Mail June 20, 2020<\/strong><\/h1>\n<div id=\"attachment_209091\" style=\"width: 550px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Indian-Army-convoy-moves-along-the-national-Highway-leading-to-Ladakh..jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-209091\" class=\"wp-image-209091\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Indian-Army-convoy-moves-along-the-national-Highway-leading-to-Ladakh.-768x513.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"540\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Indian-Army-convoy-moves-along-the-national-Highway-leading-to-Ladakh.-768x513.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Indian-Army-convoy-moves-along-the-national-Highway-leading-to-Ladakh.-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Indian-Army-convoy-moves-along-the-national-Highway-leading-to-Ladakh..jpg 962w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 540px) 100vw, 540px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-209091\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Indian Army convoy moves along the national Highway leading to Ladakh. Click to enlarge<\/p><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">China has laid claim to the entire Galwan Valley on the Himalayan border where Chinese and Indian troops fought in a deadly midnight battle using spiked clubs and rocks just days ago.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">The midnight brawl in part of the disputed Ladakh region along the Himalayan frontier was the deadliest in 45 years. Some 63 soldiers are thought to have been killed.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">It comes after it was revealed\u00a0<a style=\"color: #ccffff;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/china\/index.html\"><strong>China<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0appears to have sent bulldozers to divert the course of a river near the disputed border where soldiers fought at 14,000 feet on Monday, satellite images suggest.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">India blamed China for instigating the fight by developing infrastructure in the valley, which it said was a breach of the agreement regarding the disputed land.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Zhao Lijian said in a statement that &#8216;the Galwan Valley is located on the Chinese side of the Line of Actual Control in the west section of the China-India boundary&#8217;.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">He blamed incursions by Indian troops in the area from early May for a midnight clash on Monday that left 20 Indian soldiers dead. China has not said whether its side suffered any casualties, but reports have suggested the number of casualties could be as high as 43.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Soldiers brawled with clubs, rocks and their fists in the thin air at 14,000 feet above sea level but no shots were fired, Indian officials have said. The soldiers carry firearms but are not allowed to use them under a previous agreement in the border dispute.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Indian security officials have said the deaths were caused by severe injuries and exposure to sub-freezing temperatures.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">The valley falls within a remote stretch of the 2,100-mile Line of Actual Control &#8211; the border established following a war between India and China in 1962 that resulted in an uneasy truce.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">India&#8217;s Ministry of External Affairs spokesman Anurag Srivastava declined to comment on China&#8217;s claim to the valley. But Prime Minister Narendra Modi said in a meeting with political opposition leaders on Friday that &#8216;neither anyone has intruded into our territory, nor took over any post&#8217;.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Mr Modi said India was &#8216;hurt and angry&#8217; about the deaths of its troops. He said India wanted peace and friendship, but had the &#8216;capability that no one can even dare look towards an inch of our land&#8217;.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-8442455\/China-lays-claim-entire-Galwan-Valley-Chinese-Indian-troops-fought-deadly-brawl.html\">Continues \u2026<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chinese and Indian troops fought in a deadly midnight battle using spiked clubs and rocks just days ago. Up to 63 could have been killed in the high-altitude brawl<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39262,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[78,58],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-209088","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-china","category-Current_Affairs"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209088","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/39262"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=209088"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209088\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":209092,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209088\/revisions\/209092"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=209088"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=209088"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=209088"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}