China lays claim to entire Galwan Valley, China Says India responsible for border clash
China lays claim to entire Galwan Valley, China Says India responsible for border clash
China accuses Indian soldiers of instigating the fight in the disputed Ladakh region that left 20 Indian soldiers dead.
China lays claim to Galwan Valley, by saying that it is located on the Chinese side of LAC (Line of Actual Control) in the disputed Ladakh region, and puts all the blame on India for the deadly clash on June 15 that left 20 Indian military men dead.
Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Zhao Lijian said in a statement on Friday that the Galwan Valley, which is part of the disputed Ladakh region, is located on the Chinese side of the Line of Actual Control (LAC) - the de facto border between the two Asian rivals.
While the Indian counterpart Mr. Subrahmanyam Jaishankar (Foreign Minister) has said that the fighting started after the Chinese side sought to erect a structure in Galwan valley on our side of the LAC.
China has laid claim to the entire Galwan Valley on the Himalayan border at the center of Sino-Indian dispute.
Both sides claim ownership of the region and have troops stations on either side of the so-called Line of Actual Control (LAC), the defacto border between the two nations.
The valley falls within a remote stretch of the 2,100-mile Line of Actual Control - the border established following a war between India and China in 1962 that resulted in an uneasy truce.
In the Above picture you see the LAC de facto border between India and China following the Indo-Sino war in 1962.
Also on Friday, Mr Zhao said that China was not holding any Indian soldiers, without addressing media reports that China released 10 of them late on Thursday.
'My information is that at present there are no Indian personnel detained on the Chinese side,' Zhao said, according to an English version of his daily briefing posted on the ministry website.
Indian officials have also denied that any soldiers were in Chinese custody.
Meanwhile satellite images appear to show China deploying new machinery and damming a river in the Himalayan mountainside where tensions boiled over into the worst violence on the border since 1967.
The machinery was sighted on Tuesday, having not been there a week before - and Indian media suggests the Chinese troops involved in Monday's clash might have 'surged' from these positions.
India mobilised fighter jets on Saturday after tensions with China cranked up regarding the ongoing bitter dispute over the Galwan Valley on the Himalayan border.
Videos circulating across the internet show footage of Indian fighter gets taking to the skies, in the aftermath of China laying claim to the entire valley area into which the country has now moved bulldozers.
Saty tuned we will keep you updated in about the situation from the Border where a war is on the verge of just a step away.
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