Although, China initially didn’t admit any loss of its army personnel during physical confrontation with Indian army, photos appeared in Twitter and confirmed by Chinese state control CGTV network that China has officially opened a memorial in mainland China for 35 fallen soldiers of Peoples Liberation Army in Galwan Valley.
On 15 June, Indian and Chinese troops clashed for six hours in a steep section of a mountainous region in the Galwan Valley. The immediate cause of the incident is unknown, with both sides releasing contradictory official statements in the aftermath.
The fresh satellite images, dated 22 June, are from space technology company Maxar. The structures which appear to have been built by China overlooking the Galwan River were not visible in aerial photographs earlier in June, Reuters reported.
Neither India nor China has commented.
The clash in the Galwan Valley, in the disputed Himalayan territory of Ladakh, took place on 15 June, weeks after high-level military commanders from both nations agreed to “peacefully resolve the situation in the border areas in accordance with various bilateral agreements.”
Since the clash, and amid spiralling rhetoric, the two nations have tried to publicly calm tensions.
A statement released by the India’s foreign ministry on Wednesday said that India’s Foreign Minister Subrahmanyam Jaishankar and the Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi “reaffirmed that both sides should sincerely implement the understanding on disengagement and de-escalation that was reached by the senior commanders on 6 June”.
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