News has emerged that mighty China’s People’s Liberation Army (PLA) had to rotate 90 per cent of its soldiers because they were badly affected by the extreme cold conditions and in Eastern Ladakh.
As per reports by ANI, the PLA was forced to bring fresh troops after many soldiers were badly affected by the extremely cold conditions in the area.
Since April-May 2020, China has deployed over 50,000 troops close to the Indian territory in eastern Ladakh and has managed to maintain the strength despite the limited troop’s withdrawal from front locations in the Pangong lake sector.
“The Chinese have brought in fresh troops from the hinterland to replace the troops who had been there for the last one year. Around 90 per cent of their troops have been rotated,” sources mentioned to reporters.
However, with the harsh cold conditions in the region and the high altitude, the PLA was forced to rotate its troops almost on a daily basis in the Pangong lake area last year leading to very limited movement.
The Indian Army which has a long history of maintaining a presence in high altitude area stations its troops for a two-year tenure and around 40-50 per cent of soldiers get rotated every year.
But the Indo-Tibetian Border Police (ITBP) which is a para-military force where most of the recruits are from that region sometimes stationed for more than two years.
India and China have deployed troops in eastern Ladakh and other areas along the Line of Actual Control (LAC) since April-May last year and India surprised the Chinese when its troops seized the strategic heights at the lake’s southern bank in August last year, from where they dominated the Chinese.
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