Three years after Galwan: Where India-China ties stand

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The Galwan clash of June 15-16, 2020 marked a watershed in India-China ties, which were already tense after the Chinese in April intruded into several places in Eastern Ladakh that are claimed by India. The deaths of 20 soldiers in Galwan was the first time Indian Army personnel were killed on the Line of Actual Control after October 1975, when four Assam Rifles men died in a Chinese ambush at Tulung La in Arunachal Pradesh. The People’s Liberation Army had pitched tents and an observation post on India’s side of the LAC in Galwan. On the night of June 15,...