scorecardresearch
Thursday, August 28, 2025
TopicGalwan Clash

Topic: Galwan Clash

China’s still spreading lies about Galwan. Modi govt, Army must bring closure with formal inquiry

Chinese bot accounts on Twitter are spreading misinformation about the Galwan clash and humiliating Indian soldiers. Unless India responds, it will seem credible.

Pak defence minister likely to skip SCO meet in India, Rajnath to hold bilateral talks with Chinese counterpart

Gen Li will be in India for Shanghai Cooperation meet. This will be the 1st visit by a Chinese defence minister since tensions broke out at LAC between the two nations in eastern Ladakh in 2020.

On LAC, cope with the new reality or declare red lines and give marked maps to China

The govt must signal its threshold for use of tactical nuclear weapons. Below this threshold, the military differential is irrelevant to secure borders.

Did PLA force Galwan captives to make ‘confessions’? Footage surfaces in India-China video war

PLA video was released hours after social media handles in India posted footage from a 2021 clash in Yangtse, Arunachal, showing Indian troops holding off larger Chinese force.

BJP leader shares video of Indian, Chinese soldiers clashing, but it’s an old clip from 2020

The video shows a fight between Indian and Chinese soldiers in Sikkim, which took place days after the Galwan Valley clashes from two years ago.

Richa Chadha apologises for tweet on Galwan, says ‘I personally know how it feels’

The Bollywood actor was slammed on social media for posting a tweet on the 2020 Galwan clash, in which several Indian Army soldiers died.

German Chancellor goes to China, may have played into Xi’s ‘divide and rule’ approach for EU

The German version of ‘European policy on China’ comes down to maintaining economic ties with Beijing while checking US’s power in Europe.

India prepares for late-night military talks with China, and Beijing glams up Galwan survivor

While Xi Jinping is feeling confident about the CCP's work in Xinjiang, Beijing's geopolitical game in the Pacific is slowly unfolding.

Wang Yi’s India visit was China trying to return to diplomatic status quo, says MIT prof Fravel

M. Taylor Fravel, China expert at MIT, says Beijing is now trying to establish 'common ground' with India as New Delhi has not called out Moscow over its Ukraine invasion.

Shouldn’t turn ‘New Year’s sweets into bullets’, Chinese paper hits out at India’s Opposition

In an editorial, The Global Times praised the exchange of sweets between Chinese and Indian soldiers on New Year & blamed India's Opposition for turning 'sweets into bullets'.

On Camera

Severe Hyderabad internet outages make it an IT hub without the IT part

Many offices in Telangana have asked their employees to work from home because of heavy rainfall, but it has become impossible due to the internet outages.

‘Not just Russian oil, India tapped us along on trade deal,’ says US treasury secy Scott Bessent

New Delhi: The US is not worried about the rupee “becoming a reserve currency” given that it is at an all-time low versus the...

CDS on differences on theaterisation—views welcome, final call to be in nation’s best interests

The Navy has always been on board with the theaterisation plan, but the Air Force feels splitting up air assets into several theatre commands is futile & will tie up critical systems.

That Oval Office picture for ages deserves closer Indian reading, with a geopolitical lens

Putin sees this as a victory. Europeans have decided to deal with Trump on his terms for the sake of the larger Western alliance. We look at the lessons for us in India.