India, China Border Tensions Escalate

India on Friday rejected a Chinese allegation that it is responsible for high tensions along their disputed border.

Indian External Affairs Ministry spokesman Anurag Srivastava said the six-month standoff between the two countries’ armies “has been a result of the actions of the Chinese side, which has sought to effect a unilateral change in the status along the Line of Actual Control in Eastern Ladakh.”

Srivastava was responding to a statement by Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Hua Chunying in Beijing on Thursday that “the rights and wrongs of what has happened in the China-India border area are very clear and the responsibility lies squarely with the Indian side.”

Hua also said that China is firmly committed to safeguarding its sovereignty. “We hope that India will work with China in the same direction and do more things conducive to solidarity, cooperation and common development,” she said.

The standoff between the Asian giants erupted into a fierce brawl in May and worsened into hand-to-hand combat on June 15 with soldiers using clubs, stones and fists, leaving 20 Indian troops dead. China is believed to also have suffered casualties, but has not given any details.

The countries have held a series of talks on ending the standoff without any breakthrough.

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All war should just be fought between leaders fist of fist they are all cowards

[hsoepangkat]

It was a pity that India's national hero M. Gandhi was assassinated during the separation of India and Pakistan. Mountbatten arbitrarily drew a line to divide British India into India and Pakistan and then because of Kashmir's Maharaja chose to sign to join India rather than Pakistan, we have witnessed what happened afterwards: 3 major wars between India and Pakistan. But you need to find out who was the first warmonger. That's the late PM J. Nehru. Gandhi never liked Nehru and actually criticized Nehru. It was Nehru who inherited British India's expansionism policy. The British didn't conquer the whole land within a short period as there was no India at the time but more than 40 fiefdoms and the British colonialist took over those fiefdoms one by one and made it British India. Then the British Governors started thinking a way to take over Tibet but was stopped by the Ching dynasty in China. Anyway Governor MacMahon managed to grab a piece of the South Tibet which was never accepted by the Chinese kingdom nor the next Republic of China. Nehru learnt that trick by heart. He would take neighbour's land mile by mile. In 1962, it took Chairman Mao 10 days to ponder why his good friend Nehru would do such harassment to China. In 1955 China and India sponsored the Bandung conference in Indonesia and signed the Bandung declaration for mutual peace and non interference principles (the 5 Bandung principles). Finally Chairman Mao decided to clobber back. With superb strategic planning although extreme transportation difficulty in those terrain, PLA managed to beat the Indian agresors and bought border peace for the next 20 yrs. But Nehru's propaganda of the ultra Hindu superiority made it difficult for the Indians to accept such defeat. So what happened is that Indians would remember forever that devastating 1962 defeat but didn't want to know who started it. Just like the Galwan conflict in Ladakh, a mediocre Colonel B. Santosh Babu who came to site just 2 days and who was eager to show off and please his high command in New Delhi, did the most stupid adventurous and uncalculated incursion to the Chinese side and his team was clobbered causing 17 Indian soldiers jumping into the freezing river that ended in 20 unnecessary deaths. Again, all Indians remembered that 20 deaths but didn't want to blame Col Babu's action. Indian media made up Chinese losses of 40+ soldiers to save face. The fact is, Chinese lost 4 soldiers which was shown the release of the video right after the disengagement agreement. So India must abandon the Congress Nehru clan that kept screaming that India lost some inches of territory due to the disengagement and more soldiers should be positioned in the highland at all cost. Are there any more Indians that can think like the Great Hero Gandhi?

[hsoepangkat]

It was a pity that India's national hero M. Gandhi was assassinated during the separation of India and Pakistan. Mountbatten arbitrarily drew a line to divide British India into India and Pakistan and then because of Kashmir's Maharaja chose to sign to join India rather than Pakistan, we have witnessed what happened afterwards: 3 major wars between India and Pakistan. But you need to find out who was the first warmonger. That's the late PM J. Nehru. Gandhi never liked Nehru and actually criticized Nehru. It was Nehru who inherited British India's expansionism policy. The British didn't conquer the whole land within a short period as there was no India at the time but more than 40 fiefdoms and the British colonialist took over those fiefdoms one by one and made it British India. Then the British Governors started thinking a way to take over Tibet but was stopped by the Ching dynasty in China. Anyway Governor MacMahon managed to grab a piece of the South Tibet which was never accepted by the Chinese kingdom nor the next Republic of China. Nehru learnt that trick by heart. He would take neighbour's land mile by mile. In 1962, it took Chairman Mao 10 days to ponder why his good friend Nehru would do such harassment to China. In 1955 China and India sponsored the Bandung conference in Indonesia and signed the Bandung declaration for mutual peace and non interference principles (the 5 Bandung principles). Finally Chairman Mao decided to clobber back. With superb strategic planning although extreme transportation difficulty in those terrain, PLA managed to beat the Indian agresors and bought border peace for the next 20 yrs. But Nehru's propaganda of the ultra Hindu superiority made it difficult for the Indians to accept such defeat. So what happened is that Indians would remember forever that devastating 1962 defeat but didn't want to know who started it. Just like the Galwan conflict in Ladakh, a mediocre Colonel B. Santosh Babu who came to site just 2 days and who was eager to show off and please his high command in New Delhi, did the most stupid adventurous and uncalculated incursion to the Chinese side and his team was clobbered causing 17 Indian soldiers jumping into the freezing river that ended in 20 unnecessary deaths. Again, all Indians remembered that 20 deaths but didn't want to blame Col Babu's action. Indian media made up Chinese losses of 40+ soldiers to save face. The fact is, Chinese lost 4 soldiers which was shown the release of the video right after the disengagement agreement. So India must abandon the Congress Nehru clan that kept screaming that India lost some inches of territory due to the disengagement and more soldiers should be positioned in the highland at all cost. Are there any more Indians that can think like the Great Hero Gandhi?