It also shows how long Beijing has gone to silence discussions about the war, the report said.
China’s loss in Galvan Valley An investigative Australian newspaper claimed on Wednesday, 2 February 2022 that the conflict in 2020 was much more than reports of several soldiers drowning while crossing a fast-flowing river in the dark.
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klaxon The report cited findings from unnamed researchers and mainland Chinese bloggers and said they declined to be named on security grounds, but their findings “shed important light on the saga”.
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Claims of substantial Chinese casualties are not new, although evidence provided by a group of social media researchers who klaxon independently made, appears to support the claim that China’s casualties far exceeded the four soldiers designated by Beijing,” it said.
It also shows how long Beijing has gone to silence discussions about the war, the report said.
“China’s losses in the high-altitude 2020 Galwan Valley border conflict with India – the deadliest confrontation between the two giants in four decades – compared many soldiers to drowning while crossing a fast-flowing, sub-zero river in the dark were very high, claims the new research,” the report said.
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Eastern Ladakh border line extended after clashes in Galwan Valley on June 15, 2020.
Twenty Indian Army jawans sacrificed their lives In the conflicts that marked the most serious military clashes between the two sides in decades.
In February last year, China officially acknowledged that five Chinese military officers and soldiers were killed in clashes with the Indian Army, although it is widely believed that the death toll was higher.
‘Galwan Decode’
klaxon Citing a report in the matter titled “Galvan Decoded”, it has been prepared by a group of social media researchers.
“The researchers declined to be named on safety grounds, but their findings shed important light on the saga,” it said.
Klaxon said the report cited discussions with mainland Chinese bloggers, information obtained from mainland-based Chinese citizens and a year-long investigation involving media reports that have been quashed by Chinese authorities.
“A lot of facts about what actually happened, which led to the clash, have been hidden by Beijing,” it is quoted from the report.
A border standoff broke out in eastern Ladakh on May 5, 2020, following violent clashes in the Pangong Lake area and both sides gradually increased their deployment of heavy weapons along with thousands of troops.
As a result of a series of military and diplomatic talks, both sides completed dissection procedure Last year on the northern and southern shores of Pangong Lake along with Gogra.
Each side currently has around 50,000 to 60,000 troops along the Line of Actual Control in the sensitive area.
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