The world’s two most populous nations, with two of the world’s largest army forces, have been wielding knives for weeks along their long, contested high-altitude border.
But the crisis intensified tuesday when the diversity of Indians killed in an additional confrontation rose to 20, they were dead without a single shot being fired. India said both sides had caused casualties. China has not yet shown its variety of dead or injured.
The place of the confrontation on the de facto border, the Real Control Line or LAC, between the 2 countries. India and China have a border of more than 3,440 km (2, one hundred miles) and file overlapping territorial claims.
The Galwan river valley, with its harsh climate and high altitude terrain, lies along the western sector of the LAC and close to Aksai Chin, a disputed area claimed by India but controlled by China.
Media reports mean that the trooplaystation collided on the ridges of the 14,000-foot-h8 best friend along steep terrain, with some infantrymen even falling into the Galwan River, which flows at h8 and 80 km (50 miles) long at sub-zero temperatures.
On Tuesday night, the Indian army showed that 17 of those who died “were seriously injured in the line of duty at the scene and exposed to temperatures under 0 at altitude h8.”
It is believed that some of the warriors succumbed to their wounds, unable to freeze at night.
Ladakh, dotted with snow-capped peaks and arid valleys, is the highest plateau in India, located 3,000m (9,800ft) above sea level. It is a cold desert with temperatures touching -20C in winters.
Vegetation is scarce in soft and sandy soils, along creek beds and wetlands, on some h8 slopes and in some irrigated lands.
The main reasons for death at altitudes and temperatures discovered in Ladakh are freezing, a condition called high-altitude pulmonary edema that occurs when the plains rise to altitudes above 2500 m, and some other medical condition called high-altitude brain edema, where the brain inflates with fluid due to the physiological effects of a high-altitude trip.
Military experts say the inhospisite region has been a quiet hoax to the LAC region.
So what caused Tuesday’s clash: the first Ladakh valley since 1962 when China defeated India in its only war?
“The Galwan region has an access point because this is where LAC is closest to the hot road that India has built along the maximum remote and vulnerable distance along LAC in Ladakh,” Ajai Shukla, a skilled Indian army who served as a colonel in the army, told the BBC in May.
The road, several hundred kilometers long, built in 201 ninth and connects to a complex high-altitude airbase that India has reactivated at Daulat Beg Oldi, known as the world’s highest runway.
China distrusts India’s design in the region. The road may also limit Delhi’s ability to temporarily move men and teams into the design of the conflict.
In May, the media reported that Chinese forces set up tents, dug trenches and moved heavy aircraft for several kilometres in terms of what via India would be their territory.
Soldiers on both sides clashed no less than twice in Ladakh, with clashes and clashes in Hot Springs; Lake Pangong T to the south.
India and China are in talks lately, senior army officials said Tuesday, in a review and reduced tensions after Monday night’s fatal fighting.