Three indian soldiers have been killed in a skirmish on the border to China, announces India’s army on Tuesday.
Skudepisoden happened after weeks of increasing tensions in the area and the deployment of thousands of extra soldiers on both sides.
– There was a violent confrontation on Monday night (early Tuesday local time) with the slain. On the indian side include the losses of an officer and two soldiers, according to a statement from the indian army.
the Shooting happened in the western part of the Himalayas, which for several weeks has been the increasing tensions between the two big countries.
China’s foreign ministry spokesman, Zhao Lijian, said Tuesday in a comment that ‘indian soldiers crossed the boundary twice on Monday and provoked and attack chinese personnel’.
– This led to a serious physical confrontation between grænsestyrkerne on the two sides, he says.
the Relationship between China and India have traditionally been hostile.
the Dispute by the two countries ‘ border in the Himalayas have been triggered by the fact that India builds roads and runways for aircraft in the area. This happens in an intense competition with China’s extensive ‘Belt and Road initiative’ – the ‘new silk road’.
It is a long-term plan, among other things, restore the trade route between China and Europe through huge investments in railways, ports, roads and other infrastructure. The project has encountered criticism in many places, among others from France and Germany.
the Project has aroused the concern as it relates to the dispute about the debt problems in the chinese foreign policy.
Critics warn that it is a hidden ‘debt trap’, which will help the chinese companies. In the UNITED states called the program in the day for a ‘forfængeligheds-project’.
In the Himalayas are the soldiers from both China and India have been sent to the Galwan Valley in in the the high located Ladakh region. Here is accusations about the grænsekrænkelser go back and forth for weeks.
On both sides have military set up defensive positions.
The indian prime minister Narendra Modis government has after many years of negligence initiated developments of 66 important roads along the China border. They must be completed in 2022.
