*update with no links but I’ll try to find the news*
So, now that the anger has died down, there’s a new overall report of what happened. The disputed territory is regularly patrolled, as we know. It’s divided by a river.
China decided to build a structure that blocked water flow to influence India’s growing technology, which might someday lead to India populating the area in their side. Indians took a patrol to see what was up and crossed to the China side.
The Chinese were deep and hid weapons so they could ambush the Indians they knew would eventually show up. The scrap was apparently pretty even, though China was deeper and had hand-held, improvised weapons in the cut.
The Chinese then released all the water, that was being held back, which washed a bunch of Indian and some Chinese soldiers away. *this is where the og reports of them being killed by a fall, exposure, and along some river bank cane from.
The Indians returned even deeper with their own improvised weapons and killed more Chinese. Both sides withdrew and the Indian President/PM announced that they crossed the border and not the Chinese. He has given his side permission to respond with whatever weapons, the Chinese may be using, should they make contact again.
I don’t think anything beyond hand to hand is going to happen in the near future, though.
.....they are just american foreign policy on steroids....
