After the Chinese state-controlled media posted photos and videos of its soldiers unfurling their flag in Galwan valley, the Indian Army completely busted when it proved beyond a reason of doubt that the video shared by the Chinese is not the spot were Indian and Chinese soldiers fought on June 2020.
Indian Army soldiers in Galwan Valley on #NewYear
— ANI (@ANI) January 4, 2022
(Photo credit: Sources in security establishment) pic.twitter.com/GJxK0QOW48
Analysis of the videos with available open-source satellite images and terrain mapping clearly indicates that the flag unfurling incident did not take place on January 1, 2022 at the site of the June 2020 clash in Galwan Valley.
According to defense analyst Abhijit Iyer-Mitra, the location of the video tweeted by the Chinese is wrong because the point were the hand-to-hand combat between Indian and Chinese forces that took place in June 2020 clearly indicates that the location of the unfurling of the Communist flag could not have been the same.
1 Here is the location of the video tweeted by the Chinese today. Yellow marks where the Galwan clashes happened and red marks where the video was taken. You can see here that way back in June 2020 a former ambassador had put out the Chinese claim and a correspondent had pic.twitter.com/afZ7GOIrZs
— Abhijit Iyer-Mitra (@Iyervval) January 3, 2022
2 triangulated where that claim lay (albeit the original document being inaccurate in marking). This triangulation substituting 78E for 68E would place the line of actual control at the point marked yellow in the previous tweet. pic.twitter.com/dy8ToJse9T
— Abhijit Iyer-Mitra (@Iyervval) January 3, 2022
3 The yellow and red point are 1 km apart as the crow flies & about 1.5 kms walking. Either way the video released today has been filmed outside the disengagement zone & within territory that’s been under Chinese control since 2013 at least.
— Abhijit Iyer-Mitra (@Iyervval) January 3, 2022
4 you can check the locations in detail yourselves – the video is taken athttps://t.co/ROOv6K6IHQ and the LAC fixed in 1962 ishttps://t.co/XPLg4wUbO4. You decide for yourselves. This government is incompetent & run by morons but morons aren’t liars.
— Abhijit Iyer-Mitra (@Iyervval) January 3, 2022
The media in China is controlled by the state and this time it used its media in an unofficial capacity because the Chinese government has not made any official claim about the videos. However, such videos are seen as an instrument of disinformation, confusion and create disharmony within India.
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