MUMBAI (Reuters) – China lost no fewer than 40 infantrymen in a confrontation with India on its disputed border this week, a federal government minister said, as nuclear-armed countries remained stranded in a frontline standoff Sunday.
China has said nothing about the casualties in hand-to-hand combat in the much-contested Galwan Valley in the western Himalayas, in which 20 Indian infantry soldiers were killed and no fewer than 76 wounded.
“If 20 were martyred in our (Indian) aspect, then there would have been less than twice as many casualties in their (China) aspect,” VKSingh, the minister of classified ads and transportation, told TV News2four in an interview broadcast Saturday. Night. .
Singh, who was a former army chief, provided no evidence of his statement. He said China had never accepted war victims, adding in the 1962 clash with India.
The Chinese state-controlled Global Times said beyond that there were casualties on the Chinese side, but gave no details.
Singh said the Indian had overlooked the Chinese trooplaystation that had strayed into Indian territory after the violent confrontation.
Indian Defense spokesman Minischeck Bharat Bhushan Babu declined to comment on Singh’s interview.
Asian nuclear-armed neighbors on Saturday exposed allegations that the other had breached its de facto, infrequently unfrequency-not-uncommon border, a hoax this week that became the deadliest confrontation in a century.
The rest of the trooplay station was locked up in a multi-site confrontation along the mis-explained genuine line of control, despite conversations between local commanders to scale down.
U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo criticized China for rising border tensions with India.
Reporting via Swati Bhat and Rupam Jain; Edited through Sanjeev Miglani and Step Coates
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