BEIJING, KOMPAS.com – Before the clashes between Indian military opponents in the Galwan Valley, China had sent mountain climbers and fighters there.
The findings were revealed by Chinese state media AFP on Sunday (6/28/2020).
Fighting between the two militaries is the deadliest in more than 50 years, with 20 dead in India while China has not revealed the number of victims.
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Government military newspaper China National Defense News reported, five new militia divisions consisting of former members of the Mount Everest Olympic torch relay team and fighters from the Enbo Fight Club martial arts club came to be examined in Lhasa, Tibet, on June 15.
Then Chinese state television CCTV featuring footage of hundreds of new troops marching in the Tibetan capital.
Tibetan Commander Wang Haijiang said the recruitment of fighters from the Enbo Fight Club would “greatly increase the strength and mobilization” of troops, as well as increase “response and assistance”.
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But he did not explicitly confirm that the dispatch of fighters was related to the conflict India-China border in progress.
Monday (06/15/2020), the Indian and Chinese military battles in Ladakh, a border region 1,300 kilometers away from Lhasa.
The two sides blamed each other for this incident, which occurred without a shootout but fights, stone-throwing, and iron-rod spikes.
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India on Thursday (6/25/2020) said it had strengthened troops at the disputed Himalayan border, to match the deployment of troops carried out by China.
Chinese state media in recent weeks has highlighted military activities on the border, including anti-jet fighter drills on the Tibetan plateau bordering India.
China National Defense News wrote, new troops were recruited to “strengthen borders and stabilize Tibet”.
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India claims Chinese troops ambushed Indian army and forced them down from the hill, because there was a “encroachment” that China did.
Both countries agreed not to use firearms at the border, so clashes occurred with other tools.
Instead China accuses India of having twice crossed the Actual Control Line (LAC) which is an unofficial limit, and provoked its troops.
Before this fight, the last time the two countries clashed at the border in 1962.
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