Tag: Galwan

Historical Roots of India-China Border Conflict Lie in Mao Zedong’s Conquest Designs in Xinjiang and Tibet: Historian

NEW DELHI–Since the bloody clash between Indian and Chinese soldiers in the remote Galwan region of the Himalayas in 2020, border tensions between the two neighbors have shown little sign of easing. The decades-long border dispute finds its roots in the Chinese regime’s first leader Mao Zedong’s conquest designs in western regions of Xinjiang and…


China Jails Blogger for ‘Smearing’ Soldiers Killed in Clash with India at Galwan

NEW DELHI—China has jailed a popular blogger for “smearing martyrs” killed in last year’s bloody clash with Indian soldiers in Galwan. Qiu Ziming, 38, an internet celebrity with 2.5 million followers on the Chinese social media platform Weibo was sentenced to eight months in jail under China’s freshly amended criminal law that crackdowns on the…


At Issue in India-China Skirmish Was Free Flow of Water: Expert

NEW DELHI—The ongoing border standoff between India and China that intensified with a bloody conflict in June last year was actually a Chinese pilot project to test a strategy of global expansion based on the stoppage of trans-border rivers, said an Indian defense analyst. “They blocked the water of the Galwan river and there was…