Satellite imagery and multiple news reports on Thursday confirmed that, even as India and China continue to speak of disengagement, the Chinese structures that led to the violent clash in the Galwan Valley in eastern Ladakh on June 15 are back. According to The Indian Express, Chinese troops have crossed the “the border in another strategic area to the north, the Depsang plains.”
Troops from both the countries got into a brutal altercation on June 15 after the Indian side attempted to burn down a Chinese tent that had not been removed despite a mutual agreement between the two armies days earlier. The violent clash led to the deaths of at least 20 Indian soldiers, with Beijing not revealing the casualty count on the Chinese side. This was the first fatal fight on the Line of Actual Control, the disputed border between India and China, in more than 40 years.
On June 23, the Indian Army said there was a “mutual consensus to disengage” after an 11-hour Corps Commander-level meeting was held in a “cordial, positive and constructive atmosphere.”
Yet satellite imagery and news reports demonstrate that the Chinese tent has been re-erected at the site of the Galwan clash, with even more construction in place.
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