India experiences accidents on each side in border conflict with China By Reuters

By Shivam Patel and Sudipto Ganguly

NEW DELHI (Reuters) -Indian troops prevented Chinese language troopers from coming into Indian territory on Dec. 9 throughout a border scuffle, the primary such conflict since 2020, that led to accidents on each side, India’s defence minister stated on Tuesday.

The incident occurred within the Tawang sector of India’s northeastern Himalayan state of Arunachal Pradesh, which borders China’s south and can be claimed by Beijing. Indian troops suffered no fatality or severe accidents, minister Rajnath Singh stated.

“PLA troops tried to unilaterally change the established order by encroaching on the Line of Precise Management, within the Yangtse space of Tawang sector,” Singh stated, referring to the Individuals’s Liberation Military.

“Our military confronted this try of China with firmness. A scuffle ensued on this face-off. The Indian Military bravely prevented the PLA from encroaching on our territory, and compelled them to withdraw to their posts. Some troopers from each side had been injured within the skirmish.”

China’s international ministry stated that in line with their data, the scenario on the border with India was typically steady.

India’s international minister had informed parliament final week, earlier than the most recent conflict, that relations with China couldn’t return to regular with out peace on the border.

The scuffle was the primary between the 2 international locations since lethal clashes in June 2020 when Indian and Chinese language troops had been concerned in hand-to-hand fight within the Galwan Valley of Ladakh, abutting the Chinese language-held Tibetan plateau.

The incident led to the dying of 20 Indian troopers and 4 Chinese language troops.

“As a result of well timed intervention of Indian commanders, PLA troopers went again to their places,” Singh informed lawmakers on the most recent conflict, including that the Indian commander within the space held a gathering along with his Chinese language counterpart on Sunday to debate the difficulty.

“The Chinese language facet was requested to chorus from such actions and preserve peace and tranquillity alongside the border. The problem has additionally been taken up with the Chinese language facet by means of diplomatic channels.”

The un-demarcated 3,800 km (2,360 mile) frontier between the nuclear-armed Asian giants had stayed largely peaceable since a warfare in 1962, earlier than the clashes two years in the past despatched relations nose-diving.

For lengthy, troops on each side have adhered to long-standing protocols to keep away from using any firearms alongside the de facto border often called the Line of Precise Management.