Galwan: Postscript to a tragedy
The HinduThe night of June 15, 2020 will go down in the annals of Indian history as one steeped in tragedy. Twenty Indian Army personnel, including the Commanding Officer of 16th Bihar Regiment, lost their lives at the hands of Chinese troops in the Galwan Valley of Ladakh. Ladakh face-off | Days after clash, China frees 10 Indian soldiers From 1959 to 2020 Nothing on this scale was witnessed even in the run-up to the conflict between the two countries in 1962. Ladakh face-off | China’s People’s Liberation Army planned attack in Galwan for at least two days, says senior government official Strong political direction, mature deliberation and coherence are keys to handling the situation. India’s leverage and balancing power within the Indo-Pacific and the world beyond stems from its strong democratic credentials, the dynamism of its economy, its leading role in multilateral institutions, and the strategic advantage of its maritime geography — an asset possessed by few other nations, and which must be deployed much more effectively to counterbalance the Chinese ingress into this oceanic space that surrounds us.