India’s China conundrum
India’s China conundrum
In a unilateral and a surprise move on the intervening night of June 16-17 2020, the Chinese People’s Liberation Army (PLA) entered the Galwan Valley Region, in the Eastern Ladakh, on the Indian side of the Line of Actual Control (LAC)
. The Chinese incursion was built on the premise that India would not be able to take on the might of the Chinese army. The Indian soldiers stopped the Chinese from making grounds on the Indian side of the LAC. This lead to a hand to hand combat, where over 25 Indian soldiers lost their lives, and an unspecified number of Chinese soldiers died.