{"id":7907,"date":"2020-05-14T13:40:21","date_gmt":"2020-05-14T08:10:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/?p=7907"},"modified":"2020-05-14T13:40:21","modified_gmt":"2020-05-14T08:10:21","slug":"indian-and-chinese-troops-clash-in-sikkim-and-ladakh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/indian-and-chinese-troops-clash-in-sikkim-and-ladakh\/","title":{"rendered":"Indian and Chinese troops clash in Sikkim and Ladakh"},"content":{"rendered":"<section class=\"hero-section\" data-type=\"type-1\" data-alignment=\"left\">\n<header class=\"entry-header\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>Relevance: Prelims: International<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.mapsofindia.com\/ci-moi-images\/answers\/2020\/05\/maps-showing-location-of-india-and-china-troops-clash-in-ladakh-and-sikkim.jpg\" alt=\"Brief History of Indo-China Border Dispute - Answers\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Why in news?<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/header>\n<\/section>\n<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<p>\u2022 Rekindling tensions over boundary claims, Indian and Chinese troops have clashed at two points along the Line of Actual Control (LAC) recently , leaving personnel injured on both sides.<\/p>\n<p><b>About:<\/b><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/thainewsroom.files.wordpress.com\/2020\/05\/map-india-china-troops-clash-2020-thai-newsroom.jpg?w=730\" alt=\"India, China skirmishes in Ladakh, Sikkim; many hurt \u2013 Thai Newsroom\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\u2022 The incidents took place in the Naku La sector \u2014 it\u2019s a mountain pass in Sikkim at an altitude of over 5000 metres \u2014 on May 9,<br \/>\nand in a contested area near Pangong Tso, a lake in Ladakh, on the night of May 5-6.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 But the Army played down the two incidents as \u201ctemporary and short-duration face-offs\u201d that were resolved by \u201clocal commanders as per mutually-accepted protocols\u201d through dialogue and flag meetings. These kind of incidents do occur as boundaries are not resolved.<\/p>\n<p><b>Past incidents:<\/b><\/p>\n<p>\u2022 The last major violent clash between the Indian and Chinese troops had taken place on the northern bank of the 134-km long Pangong Tso (Tso means lake), two-thirds of which is controlled by China as it extends from Tibet to Ladakh, in September 2019.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 There has, however, been a significant reduction in the border tensions since the 73-day troop confrontation in the Bhutanese territory of Doklam, near the Sikkim-Bhutan-Tibet tri-junction in June-August 2017, which saw the two armies move additional infantry battalions, tanks, artillery and missile units towards the border.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>For more such notes, Articles, News &amp; Views Join our Telegram Channel.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Telegram Link\" href=\"https:\/\/t.me\/triumphias\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>https:\/\/t.me\/triumphias<\/strong><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>Click the link below to see the details about the UPSC \u2013Civils courses offered by Triumph IAS.<\/strong> <\/span><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #ff0000;\" title=\"Courses available\" href=\"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/pages-all-courses.php\">https:\/\/triumphias.com\/pages-all-courses.php<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Relevance: Prelims: International Why in news? \u2022 Rekindling tensions over boundary claims, Indian and Chinese troops have clashed at two<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7214,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[123],"tags":[392],"class_list":["post-7907","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-current-affairs","tag-union-public-service-commission-upsc"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7907","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7907"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7907\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7908,"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7907\/revisions\/7908"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7214"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7907"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7907"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7907"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}