A new report has emerged in an Australian newspaper that states that China hid its actual losses in the Galwan Valley clash with India in June 2020.
According to an article published in ‘The Klaxon’, the People’s Liberation Army (PLA) lost at least nine times more soldiers than its official count of four.
The article cited a report prepared by a group of social media researchers who after a year-long investigation and analysis of Weibo, China’s internal and monitored messaging app that “at least 38 PLA troops along with Wang were washed away and drowned that night…of which only Wang was declared among the four officially dead soldiers,”.
The investigation also involved discussions with mainland Chinese bloggers, information obtained from mainland-based Chinese citizens, and media reports that have since been deleted by Chinese authorities.
The Galwan Valley clash was the deadliest confrontation between India and China since the 1962 war which China has played down since the incident took place.
The Indian soldiers and the PLA fought in hand-to-hand combat in sub-zero temperatures in the near pitch-black night along the Line of Actual Control (LAC) in eastern Ladakh in which India lost 20 of its soldiers.
However, China ruled by the Communist party refused to disclose its total casualties, and only in February 2020, it had announced posthumous medals to four of its soldiers who died in the Galwan clash.
The report titled “Galwan Decoded” has been prepared by a group of social media researchers and the report states, “A lot of facts about what really happened, what led to the skirmish, have been hidden by Beijing. What was told by (China) to the world were mostly fabricated stories. Many blogs and pages have been culled by (Chinese authorities) but digital archives of mainland China reveal a different story,”.
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