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India, China engage in military skirmish as tensions rise in eastern Ladakh

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India and China locked horns in a military skirmish in the eastern Ladakh near Tibet, which reportedly began last week.
The situation seems quite tense presently as well due to the presence of People’s Liberation Army of China holding ground near Pangng Tso Lake, reported Indian media.
On May 6, the troops from both sides clashed and hurled stones at each other, which also injured several other people.
An Indian media report claimed that 1,200 troops are in a back-up location by China, as India also asked for military reinforcements.
There have been long-running border tensions between the nuclear-armed neighbours, with a bitter war fought over India´s northeastern-most state of Arunachal Pradesh in 1962.
"Aggressive behaviour by the two sides resulted in minor injuries to troops. It was stone-throwing and arguments that ended in a fistfight," Indian Army Eastern Command spokesman Mandeep Hooda told AFP on May 10.
The "stand-off" on Saturday at Naku La sector near the 15,000-feet (4,572-metre) Nathu La crossing in the northeastern state of Sikkim -- which borders Bhutan, Nepal and China -- was later resolved after "dialogue and interaction" at a local level, Hooda said.
"Temporary and short duration face-offs between border-guarding troops do occur as boundaries are not resolved," he added.
Some 150 soldiers were involved in the face-off, the Press Trust of India reported.
There have been numerous face-offs and brawls between Chinese and Indian soldiers, including one near the northwest Indian region of Ladakh captured on video in 2017, where troops were seen throwing punches and stones.
In 2017, there was a high-altitude standoff in Bhutan´s Doklam region for two months after the Indian army sent troops to stop China from constructing a road there.
Relations since the standoff over Doklam between the two Asian giants appeared to improve following talks between Chinese President Xi Jinping and Prime Minister Narendra Modi in Wuhan, China in 2018.
The two men also met last October in Chennai in southern India.
China still claims about 90,000 square kilometres (35,000 square miles) of territory under New Delhi´s control
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