India's prime minister is meeting top opposition leaders as the government tries to lower tensions with China after 20 Indian soldiers were killed in a military clash in a Himalayan border region this week.
B. Upender weeps by the coffin of his son Colonel B. Santosh Babu in Suryapet, about 140 kilometers from Hyderabad, India, Thursday, June 18, 2020. Babu was among the twenty Indian troops who were killed in the clash Monday night that was the deadliest conflict between the sides in 45 years.
India and China have accused each other of instigating the clash in the Galwan Valley, part of the disputed Ladakh region along the Himalayan frontier. It was the deadliest conflict between the sides in 45 years. China has not said whether it suffered any casualties.Both countries said they were communicating through military and diplomatic channels afterward and stressed the importance of their broader bilateral relationship.
An Indian business confederation called for a boycott of 500 Chinese goods, including toys and textiles, to express “strong criticism” of China’s alleged aggression in Ladakh. “And, of course, the deaths and the clash on Monday night will probably very quickly and much more rapidly push India closer to the United States, which I think is probably not what China wants,” he said.
The clash escalated a standoff that began in early May, when Indian officials said Chinese soldiers crossed the border in three places, erecting tents and guard posts and ignoring warnings to leave. That triggered shouting matches, stone-throwing and fistfights between the opposing sides, much of it replayed on TV news programs and in social media.
Indian security officials have said the 20 fatalities were caused by severe injuries and exposure to subfreezing temperatures.
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