India, China in high-altitude fistfight at disputed border

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India, China in high-altitude fistfight at disputed border

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Authorities say the clash involved 'stone-throwing and arguments that ended in a fistfight'

KOLKATA, India – Several Indian and Chinese soldiers were injured in a high-altitude cross-border clash involving fistfights and stone-throwing at a remote but strategically important mountain pass near Tibet, the Indian Army said Sunday, May 10.

There have been long-running border tensions between the nuclear-armed neighbors, with a bitter war fought over India’s northeastern-most state of Arunachal Pradesh in 1962.

“Aggressive behavior by the two sides resulted in minor injuries to troops. It was stone-throwing and arguments that ended in a fistfight,” Indian Army Eastern Command spokesman Mandeep Hooda told AFP. 

The “stand-off” on Saturday at Naku La sector near the 15,000-feet (4,572-meter) Nathu La crossing in the northeastern state of Sikkim – which borders Bhutan, Nepal and China – was later resolved after “dialogue and interaction” at a local level, Hooda said.

“Temporary and short duration face-offs between border-guarding troops do occur as boundaries are not resolved,” he added.

The violent clash is the first between the two countries since 2017, when there was a brawl between Chinese and Indian soldiers near the northwest Indian region of Ladakh.

In the same year, there was a high-altitude standoff in Bhutan’s Doklam region after the Indian army sent troops to stop China from constructing a road there.

China still claims about 90,000 square kilometres (35,000 square miles) of territory under New Delhi’s control. – Rappler.com

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