Himalayas

U.S. News and World Report on Monday quoted sources who said the U.S. military provided India with intelligence that helped it repel a Chinese incursion in the Himalayas in late 2022.

The Indian Army announced in a statement on Monday that Chinese soldiers had invaded the country on their mutual border in the Himalayas, resulting in a violent clash that left, according to some reports, dozens of soldiers injured.

The U.N. Security Council (UNSC) on Wednesday observed a moment of silence for the passing of former Chinese dictator Jiang Zemin, the leader who guided China into global influence after the atrocity of Tiananmen Square.

The armed forces of India published videos this week showing the nation’s soldiers ordering birds of prey known as “kites” to seize and destroy small drones mid-air.

The Indian Air Force recently deployed a helicopter to fly the 14th Dalai Lama to India’s disputed border with China.

Soldiers of the U.S. Army will deploy to a region of northern India’s Uttarakhand state — located 60 miles from India’s disputed Himalayan border with China — in October to participate in an annual joint military exercise with the Indian Armed Forces called Yudh Abhyas, the U.S. Army Pacific confirmed to Japan’s Nikkei Asia on Wednesday.

New Delhi plans to install a new batch of surface-to-air missile systems along India’s northern Himalayan border with China by October, the Times of India reported on Monday, as the two neighbors remain engaged in a border standoff that began in June 2020.

China’s military is allegedly constructing a bridge across Pangong Tso, a lake that spans a disputed Himalayan border region between northern India’s Ladakh state and China’s Tibet Autonomous Region, the Times of India reported on Tuesday, citing unnamed Indian Army sources.

The Chinese military is reportedly moving a large number of unmanned ground vehicles into the Tibetan plateau, taking over duties from ethnic Han soldiers in the People’s Liberation Army (PLA) who have trouble coping with the cold temperatures and thin air of Tibet.

Indian Gen. Bipin Rawat, the chief of India’s defense staff, told reporters on Friday that although China has recently built villages along its unmarked Himalayan boundary with India, the outposts are “well within” the Chinese side of the border, the Press Trust of India (PTI) reported.

A video published by a Chinese People’s Liberation Army (PLA) daily news site on Monday appears to show units of the army’s Tibet military district conduct a high-altitude drill at an undisclosed location near the Himalayas, the South China Morning Post reported Tuesday.

Chinese leader Xi Jinping visited Tibet for the first time since 2011 on Wednesday to laud the Chinese Communist Party (CCP)’s progress in assimilating the Himalayan region to Han ethnic culture since China launched an occupation of the majority Buddhist territory in 1950, China’s official state-run Xinhua press agency reported Friday.

India’s External Affairs Minister Subrahmanyam Jaishankar warned Tuesday that Chinese “close up deployments” on the two countries’ border still continue over a year after a Chinese invasion of Indian territory led to a military clash killing dozens.

Indian Defense Minister Rajnath Singh warned on Thursday that India “has the capability to reply to aggression” on the one-year anniversary of India’s deadly border clash with Chinese troops along the two countries’ disputed Himlayan boundary.

Chinese blogger Qui Ziming, 38, was sentenced to eight months in jail on Tuesday under the latest addition to the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) long list of censorship laws.

China’s state-run Global Times on Thursday dismissed reports this week of a recent military buildup by China along its border with India as a “routine” activity. “[I]t is routine for the Indian and Chinese armies to make deployments along the border

China organized the first nationwide homages on Sunday to four soldiers killed fighting Indian troops on the nations’ border in June, the first time the Communist Party had allowed such public mourning over the incident in nearly a year.

China is constructing new villages along its Himalayan border with India in an effort to move the unmarked boundary into Chinese territory, experts warned on Friday, replicating Beijing’s encroachment strategy in the South China Sea.

A 38-year-old Chinese blogger named Qiu Ziming who writes under the name “Labixiaoqiu” on the social media platform Weibo was forced to broadcast a humiliating video apology on Tuesday for daring to question Beijing’s official narrative of the clash between Chinese and Indian soldiers in the Himalayas last June.

Chinese state media released a video over the weekend purporting to depict fighting between Chinese and Indian border troops in the Western Himalayas’ Galwan Valley in June 2020.

The Chinese Defense Ministry revealed the names of four People’s Liberation Army (PLA) soldiers killed in hand-to-hand combat with Indian troops in June 2020 on Friday, claiming these to be the only casualties in an exchange the Indian government said killed dozens of Chinese.

India’s military has ordered an “emergency procurement” of weapons and special equipment to its western Himalayan border with China, India’s government said on Monday.

Authorities in India are looking for survivors Sunday after a portion of a Himalayan glacier broke, sending a flood of water and debris into two dams and damaging numerous homes.

The Indian Army on Monday confirmed that “a minor face-off” between Indian and Chinese People’s Liberation Army (PLA) border troops took place last week in the northeastern Indian state of Sikkim, which neighbors Tibet.

China recently deployed as many as 35 tanks to three separate locations along its unmarked Himalayan border with India, WION reported on Monday.

China’s state-run Global Times reported Thursday that People’s Liberation Army (PLA) troops stationed in the mountainous Tibetan province of Ngari, which borders India, have been issued “a type of exoskeleton suit that enables them to conduct tasks in harsh, high altitude environments more efficiently.”

The Indian Army issued a statement on Wednesday denouncing media reports of China using “microwave weapons” against Indian troops in the Himalayas as “baseless” and “fake.”

The U.S. recently sent the Indian Army extreme cold weather clothing for its troops deployed on the border with China in the western Himalayas, reports revealed Tuesday.

Indian Defense Minister Rajnath Singh said on Monday that China and Pakistan are on a “mission” to create disputes along their shared borders with India.

Villagers in the Himalayas are working hard to support Indian troops against a potential Chinese invasion, carrying supplies to the soldiers and sharing a lifetime of experience with the incredibly harsh high-altitude environment.

The Chinese state propaganda outlet Global Times confirmed on Thursday multiple deaths of People’s Liberation Army (PLA) soldiers at the hands of the Indian military in June, months after repeatedly denying that any deaths occurred.

The Chinese People’s Liberation Army (PLA) has installed loudspeakers broadcasting anti-Indian government propaganda and, bizarrely, fast-paced Punjabi music on China’s border with India, the Hindustan Times alleged on Thursday.

Unnamed Indian Army sources told the Times of India on Wednesday that Indian and Chinese troops have fired shots at each other at least three times in less than a month.

Indian Minister of External Affairs Subrahmanyam Jaishanka and Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi issued a statement late Thursday agreeing to “disengage” on the nations’ mutual border after a tense summer marked by deadly military scuffles in the Himalayas.

China’s People’s Liberation Army (PLA) said on Tuesday that it had “found” two Indian youths reportedly “abducted” by Chinese soldiers near the two countries’ eastern Himalayan border on Friday, the Times of India reported.

The defense ministers of India and China met for diplomatic talks on Friday in Moscow amid a recently escalated border dispute between the two countries in the Western Himalayas.