China’s losses in the 2020 Galwan Valley clash against India are “nine times more” than officially quoted by the Chinese government. The Klaxon, an Australian investigative newspaper, claimed that “China’s losses extend well beyond the four soldiers named by Beijing”.
In February 2021, eight months after the attack, the Chinese government posthumously awarded medals to four soldiers who died in the clash in the Galwan Valley. However, the findings of the Klaxon report suggest casualties “were much higher than reported, with many soldiers drowning while crossing a fast-flowing, sub-zero river in the dark, according to new research.”
The report also says Beijing has gone to great lengths to silence talk of the clash in the Galwan Valley.
Tensions on the Ladakh border rose when Indian and Chinese troops clashed in the Galwan Valley on June 20, 2022. 20 Indian soldiers also lost their lives in the clash.
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Klaxon cited a report called “Galwan Decoded” which he said was prepared by social media researchers. “Many facts about what happened, which led to the skirmish, have been hidden by Beijing,” he quoted in the report.
“According to Weibo user alias Qiang, who claims to have served in the area, the PLA has been creating infrastructure in this buffer zone, violating the mutual agreement, and has been trying to expand its patrol limits in the buffer zone since then. April 2020”, specify the researchers.
Many People’s Liberation Army (PLA) soldiers drowned while crossing a bridge built by the Indian Army
“Wang Zhuran pushed four comrades down one after another, but his legs got caught by stones at the bottom of the river.
“His physical strength was too weak and he drowned,” the document said.
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