Iran Press/ Asia: China has demanded India withdraw troops that Beijing said had illegally crossed their shared border, its foreign ministry said on Tuesday, after a fresh flare-up between the two nuclear-armed countries along the disputed border.
Soldiers from India and China clashed last week along their disputed border, India’s defense minister said Tuesday, in the latest violence along the contested frontier since June 2020, when troops from both countries engaged in a deadly brawl.
Rajnath Singh, who addressed lawmakers in Parliament, said the Friday’s encounter along the Tawang sector of eastern Arunachal Pradesh state started when Chinese troops “encroached into Indian territory” and “unilaterally tried to change the status quo” along the disputed border near the Yangtze River area.
Singh said no Indian soldiers were seriously hurt and troops from both sides withdrew from the area soon afterward. A statement from the Indian army on Monday said troops on both sides suffered minor injuries.
Singh said that local military commanders met Sunday to discuss the dispute and the Indian government spoke to China through diplomatic channels. 219
