DefenceTalkDefenceTalkChina on Tuesday said its troops were forced to take “countermeasures” after Indian soldiers crossed their tense Himalayan border and opened fire. The relationship between the two nuclear-armed neighbours has deteriorated since a clash in the Ladakh region on June 15 in which 20 Indian troops were killed. Beijing’s defence ministry accused India of “severe […]https://www.defencetalk.com/china-says-forced-to-take-countermeasures-against-india-at-tense-border-76278/

DefenceTalkSeveral Indian and Chinese soldiers were injured in a high-altitude cross-border clash involving fistfights and stone-throwing at a remote but strategically important mountain pass near Tibet, the Indian Army said Sunday. There have been long-running border tensions between the nuclear-armed neighbours, with a bitter war fought over India’s northeastern-most state of Arunachal Pradesh in 1962. […]https://www.defencetalk.com/india-china-in-high-altitude-fistfight-at-disputed-border-75503/

DefenceTalkNepal protested India’s inauguration of a new road to China that passes through territory claimed by Kathmandu on Saturday, with police arresting dozens demonstrating close to India’s embassy. Indian defence minister Rajnath Singh on Friday inaugurated via video link the 80-kilometre (50 miles) long road from Ghatiabagarh in northern Uttarakhand state to the Lipu Lekh […]https://www.defencetalk.com/nepal-protests-new-indian-road-through-disputed-territory-75510/

DefenceTalkSenior Indian and Chinese envoys will this week hold talks aimed at resolving a bitter border dispute, the first such discussions since Prime Minister Narendra Modi came to power. China’s special representative Yang Jiechi will visit New Delhi from Sunday until Tuesday for talks with national security adviser Ajit Doval, the Indian foreign ministry said […]https://www.defencetalk.com/india-china-to-hold-talks-on-border-row-63615/