At least 20 Indian soldiers, including a colonel, were killed and at least 43 Chinese men were wounded or killed on Monday night along the Line of Actual Control (LAC), a disputed border in the Himlayas (the red territory is controlled by India, and the beige and grey stripes, Aksai Chin, is Chinese but claimed by India, the white line which surrounds is what Indian believes its border should be, whereas the black line was agreed after then 1962 Sino-Indian War - a heavy defeat for India)
Daily Mail: China brings in its big guns after troops fought to the death with rocks: Beijing puts on a show of force on Tibetan plateau as Indian PM warns of 'befitting reply' and hawks in Delhi demand retaliation for border clash
* China today broadcast live-fire military drills on the Tibetan plateau as India warned of a 'befitting reply' after 20 of its soldiers were killed in bloody hand-to-hand combat at the disputed Himalayan border
* Beijing announced it had suffered 43 casualties, but did not specify whether any of its men had been killed in the first deadly combat between the two nuclear-armed countries since 1975
* As hawks in Delhi demanded retribution for the skirmish, Modi warned: 'the sacrifice of the soldiers will not go in vain. India wants peace but if antagonised it can and will give a befitting reply'
* China meanwhile broadcast images of intense military exercises involving 7,000 infantry and featuring some of the country's most powerful weapons, including the Type 15 light tank and HJ-10 anti-tank missile
* In Beijing, a spokesman said Monday's clash erupted after Indians 'crossed the line, acted illegally, provoked and attacked the Chinese, resulting in both sides engaging in serious physical conflict and injury and death'
* According to the Indian account, what started out as an effort at disengagement after a month-long standoff along the frontier unravelled last week when Indian troops furiously dismantled a Chinese camp
* On Monday, these skirmishes boiled over into a full-scale brawl atop a ridge-line above the Galwan River, with many men dying after being knocked unconscious by nail-studded clubs and plunging into icy waters
China today broadcast live-fire military drills on the Tibetan plateau as India warned of a 'befitting reply' after 20 of its soldiers were killed in bloody hand-to-hand combat at the disputed Himalayan border.
Communist state TV showed footage of artillery and tanks blowing apart the desert landscape as 7,000 infantry simulated assaults against fortified positions around 600 miles from Monday's deadly skirmish in the Galwan River Valley.
Beijing announced it had suffered 43 casualties, but did not specify whether any of its men had been killed in the first deadly combat between the two nuclear-armed countries since 1975.
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