China admits four soldiers died in June’s Galwan clash
The statement comes after Russia’s state news agency TASS last week said 45 Chinese troops were killed in the clash
China on Friday claimed it lost four men in the June 2020 clash with Indian soldiers in Ladakh, its first admission of fatalities falling well short of Indian and Russian estimates.
According to a report in the state-owned People’s Liberation Army Daily, China’s central military commission said four Chinese frontier officers and soldiers stationed in the Karakoram Mountains died in the Galwan clash where 20 Indian soldiers were also killed.
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The statement comes after Russia’s state news agency TASS last week said 45 Chinese troops were killed in the clash. Indian Army’s general officer commanding in chief Lieutenant General Y.K. Joshi in a television interview this week said at least 60 Chinese soldiers were among the injured and dead in the clash.
Qian Feng, director of the research department at the National Strategy Institute in Tsinghua University, told Chinese state-backed Global Times that Beijing decided to release the details to commemorate the martyrs instead of releasing the details immediately after the incident in June 2020. “It is demonstrating the resolution to safeguard the bilateral ties and will not incite nationalism like Indian media,” it added. The PLA Daily report also heaped blame on India for setting off the violent clash.
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First Published:19 Feb 2021, 10:12 PM IST
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