India‘s home-affairs minister mentioned China tried to convey a few repeat of the 1962 struggle between the nations throughout a 2020 border battle, however New Delhi efficiently stood as much as Beijing’s aggression.

In a uncommon transfer, Amit Shah made the feedback in Lok Sabha, India’s decrease home of parliament, whereas taking inventory of New Delhi’s efficiency throughout the Covid pandemic and discussing different associated points. China and India fought a bloody struggle in 1962 over the disputed 2,100-mile Line of Actual Control (LAC), which has since formed the bilateral relationship between two nations with huge populations and vastly necessary economies.

Since 2020, the 2 sides have been locked in an intense border stand-off within the Eastern Ladakh area, with hundreds of troopers from each nations nonetheless stationed within the frigid Himalayan space. The troopers exchanged blows on June 15, 2020, when 20 Indian soldiers and at the very least 4 Chinese troopers died.

“During this period, when the COVID pandemic was raging, China showed its real face, like in 1962. We stood firmly to it and didn’t lose an inch of land,” Shah mentioned in parliament on Saturday.

The U.S. more and more considers New Delhi a bulwark towards Beijing’s aggressive stance towards neighbors within the Indo-Pacific. The U.S. State Department just lately authorized the sale of 31 MQ-9 Reaper drones to India, that are more likely to be deployed alongside the border with China to enhance surveillance of the contested boundary, Reuters reported on February 1.

Newsweek contacted the Chinese Embassy in New Delhi for remark.

India is in search of a restoration of the standing that existed earlier than April 2020, when the People’s Liberation Army troopers had been deployed in ahead positions alongside the LAC.

Meanwhile, Beijing has downplayed the ongoing tensions between the nations by calling on New Delhi to have a look at the broader bilateral relationship whereas placing the present section of border tensions apart.

“It is unwise and inappropriate for the Indian side to link the boundary issue with overall relations. This approach is against the two countries’ shared interests,” Col. Wu Qian, a spokesperson for China’s protection ministry, just lately informed reporters in Beijing.

India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi mentioned in June 2020 that China hadn’t taken any territory because the controversy over its incursion into territory held by New Delhi continues.

“Neither have they intruded into our border, nor has any post been taken over by them (China). Twenty of our jawans (soldiers) were martyred, but those who dared Bharat Mata, they were taught a lesson,” Modi mentioned, in accordance with the Hindustan Times on June 19, 2020.