Category Archives: News

• India has world’s fourth-highest number of Coronavirus cases 21 June 2020 | Tibet Sun Online News no comments

  India now has the fourth-highest number of Coronavirus cases in the world, with more than 411,000 cases and 13,277 deaths -- but it’s one of the lowest rates in the world for a population of 1.3 billion. ...

• China gives step by step account of what happened at Galwan Valley 20 June 2020 | Vikash Aiyappa 5 comments

  Foreign Ministry Spokesperson Zhao Lijian gave a step-by-step account of the Galwan clash and elaborated China's position on settling this incident. Zhao pointed out that the Galwan Valley is located on the Chinese side of the LAC. ...

• ‘Hurt and angry’, India leader warns China over border clash 19 June 2020 no comments

  India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi said Friday that his country was "hurt and angry" after a border clash with China that left 20 troops dead, and warned that the army has been given free reign to respond to any new violence. ...

• Modi says there was no border intrusion in deadly clash with China 19 June 2020 | Sanjeev Miglani and Devjyot Ghoshal no comments

  Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi appeared to downplay a clash with Chinese troops in a disputed Himalayan region that left 20 Indian soldiers dead and more than 70 injured, saying on Friday there had been no intrusion across his country. ...

• US condoles with India over soldiers killed in clash with China, tensions stay high 18 June 2020 | Sanjeev Miglani one comment

  The United States offered condolences to India on Friday over the deaths of 20 Indian soldiers killed in vicious hand-to-hand combat with Chinese troops during a clash on the two Asian giants disputed mountainous border earlier this week. ...

• Trump asked China’s Xi for re-election help, claims Bolton 17 June 2020 2 comments

  Donald Trump pleaded with China's leader Xi Jinping for help to win re-election in 2020, the US president's former national security advisor John Bolton writes in an explosive new behind-the-scenes book, according to excerpts. ...

• Five bombshells about Trump from Bolton’s book 17 June 2020 | David Knowles no comments

  Excerpts from former national security adviser John Bolton’s book about his time in the Trump administration paint a damning view of the president as a “stunningly uninformed” man who was outmatched by the job he was elected to do. ...

• PM Modi says India wants peace with China, but will give a fitting reply if provoked 17 June 2020 | Elizabeth Roche one comment

  India on Wednesday made it clear that it will not back away from its demand that Chinese troops withdraw from its territory as it readied for a deterioration in ties, with Beijing sticking to its encroachment of Indian territory. ...

• India, China hold talks to de-escalate deadly border tensions 17 June 2020 | Aishwarya Kumar with Parvaiz Bukhari in Srinagar and Jing Xuan Teng in Beijing no comments

  India and China agreed Wednesday to ease tensions at their disputed Himalayan border, even as they traded blame for a brawl that left at least 20 Indian soldiers dead. ...

• Fists, stones and clubs: China and India’s brutal high altitude, low-tech battle 17 June 2020 | Aishwarya Kumar with Parvaiz Buhkari in Srinagar no comments

  India and China's militaries have some of the world's most sophisticated modern weaponry, but their deadliest scrap in over 50 years was fought using fists, rocks wrapped in barbed wire and clubs studded with nails. ...