The other day revealed the terrible details of the death of 20 Indian soldiers at the hands of Chinese border guards plunged India into shock. The military command throws strike aircraft on the line of control with China and enhances the naval force in the Bay of Bengal. The Indian leadership called the incident on 15 June border incident a planned action designed to secure for Beijing the right to a strategically important disputed area of the river valley Galvan. Prime Minister Narendra modi said that the Indian military “a free hand to take all necessary measures.”After the death of Indian soldiers in the border incident in Ladakh, on 15 June, became the most violent clashes with China over the past 53 years, throughout the country do not cease thousands of protests in which participants burned Chinese flags and portraits of Chinese President XI Jinping’s call to boycott Chinese goods. Cancellation of contracts with Chinese contractors has announced the Indian state railway company and the Ministry of telecommunications has sent public companies an order to avoid to upgrade of mobile communications the use of 4G in China.The most volatile is the situation on the line of control in Ladakh. According to “Kommersant”, at several points, including the valley of the river Galvan and near the strategically important lake Pangong-TSO, where there were major battles of the Indo-Chinese war in 1962, the officers struggle to control the situation, calling for restraint lost their fellow soldiers.Such a violent reaction to the events due to revealed the circumstances of the death of 20 Indian servicemen.Set out hot on the heels of the incident, the Delhi version was that there was another border skirmish, which has happened many times here before. However, further investigation has forced the Indian side to come to a different conclusion: the incident of 15 June was the meticulous attention to detail sophisticated campaign of intimidation, during which Indian border patrol initially trapped, and then killed and thrown off cliffs, after which, according to Indian military sources, the Chinese and even the desecrated corpses.Version of the Indian command, the Chinese side tracked the movement of Indian military patrol using drones and was met by Chinese border guards in protective suits and helmets, armed with metal batons with nails. At the same time the Chinese discovered they built dams on several rivers. As a result, Indians who came to the aid of the patrol, was struck by a powerful flow of water, flushing them from the rocks into the abyss.The evacuation of the wounded to the base camp of the guards and search the bodies of the dead, in tothe Torah was used helicopters, was held on an area of few square kilometers. Given the difficult weather conditions, search and rescue operations lasted for a few hours, and some of the wounded froze to death in the mountains, without waiting for help.These circumstances explain why the collision without the use of firearms, what new Delhi and Beijing agreed in 1993, led to a number of victims.India says that the enemy was thrown back and suffered heavy losses, but no details confirming this claim, does not. Do not talk about their losses and the Chinese side.Whatever it was, but the version about attempt by Beijing to make an ostentatious campaign of intimidation to change an existing on-line control of the status quo expressed in India, not some anonymous sources, and the country’s leadership. So, during last week’s telephone conversation with foreign Minister Wang Yi, foreign Minister of India Subramaniam Jaishankar called the actions of the Chinese side “deliberate and planned action”, with Beijing responsible for “the resulting violence and victims”. Mr. Jaishankar warned that, despite the commitment of the Indian party to the dialogue, the incident would have “serious consequences” for relations with China.Recall that the foreign Minister of India, earlier worked for many years Ambassador in Beijing, has developed a good working relationship with his Chinese counterpart about the importance of dialogue with China, he, in particular, stated in an interview “Kommersant”.However, this time the conversation between the two Ministers, which on June 23 will hold a trilateral video conference with Russian foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov at the Russia—India—China, went on the raised tones. The Chinese Minister put all the responsibility for what happened on the Indian side, pointing out that Indian troops violated the line of control. “The Indian side should not make wrong judgments, not to underestimate the firm resolve of China to ensure the safety of its sovereign territory,” he warned.After the conversation between the two Ministers, last Friday, a spokesman for the Chinese foreign Ministry Zhao Lijiang stated that the valley Galvan located on the Chinese side of line of control in the Western sector of the Sino-Indian border. In Delhi, this statement was viewed as another confirmation of the intention of Beijing to change the current in the region of the status quo. “Previously, the Chinese side such statements were not allowed,”— said in an interview with “Kommersant” the Indian diplomatic source.River valley Galvan is part of the disputed region of Ladakh, in the Himalayas, and in Delhi had declared that Beijing is trying to develop the infrastructure of the region. According to satellite imagery, which spreadhas countries last Friday, the Indian television channel NDTV, during the last week the Chinese side was transferred to the valley of the river Galvan more than 200 trucks, bulldozers and earth moving equipment.In a situation when tensions between the two countries is growing rapidly, both on the control lines with a total length of about 3.5 thousand km, and on the top management level, Prime Minister Narendra modi on Friday evening held an emergency meeting with leaders of all political parties. In his speech, Mr modi assured India’s leading politicians, including leaders of the opposition: “Nobody is on our territory and not captured by any of our posts.” “20 of our brave soldiers made the ultimate sacrifice, forcing the enemy to pay a high price and given him a lesson forever,” said the Indian Prime Minister. “Our forces are in full combat readiness on all fronts and will carry out the necessary deterrence”,— assured Narendra modi. “The Indian side of the ongoing infrastructure development along the line of control would strengthen the patrols and to track the movements of the Chinese side,” he added. However, the most resonant were the statements of the Prime Minister modi that on the line of control with China’s armed forces “a free hand to take all necessary measures.”The next day after that leading Indian newspaper Times of India, citing military sources said that India deploys in Eastern Ladakh Apache attack helicopters with rockets “air—ground” Hellfire and Chinook helicopters, capable of delivering artillery in highlands. According to sources of the newspaper, on the front bases located the su-30MKI, MiG-29. For transfer of military equipment the use of heavy transport aircraft C-17 Globemaster, C-130J Super Hercules and An-32. In addition, full swing strengthening of the group of ships of the Indian Navy in the Bay of Bengal.The international response to the worsening India-China relations suggests that the world has not yet fully realized the scale of what is happening in the region changes.”We noted with satisfaction that the two countries involved in actions to de-escalate the situation. And we appreciate that de-escalation,” he tried not to dramatize the situation the Deputy official representative UN Secretary-General Farhan Haq, speaking at a briefing on Friday.However, the Republican majority leader in the Senate Mitch McConnell, speaking in the House of representatives of the U.S. Congress, has accused Beijing of provoking “the hard collision with India since the war of 1962″. Putting the situation in Ladakh on a par with events around Hong Kong, Taiwan, and Beijing territorial disputes with Japan and Southeast Asia, Mitch McConnell expressed the view that China ��is remaking the international order, as he pleases, and is redrawing the world map”.Sergey Strokan
