Twenty Indian soldiers were killed in a clash along the disputed India-China border, the first such episode in decades. What is the 'Line of Actual Control', and why did tensions escalate? Find out here
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Twenty Indian soldiers were killed by Chinese troops late Monday in a clash along the disputed India-China border, the first such episode in decades, military experts said. The violence is a continuation of a decades-old dispute between the two nuclear powers over the precise location of their Himalayan border.
What is the ‘Line of Actual Control’ and why does it matter?
Six decades ago, India and China went to war over a border dispute that ended with an uneasy truce in 1962.
While no border has ever officially been negotiated along the forbidding stretch of land high in the Himalayas that divides the two nations, the truce established a 2,100-mile-long Line of Actual Control.
Since then, an uneasy peace has held. But every time there is a flare-up of violence, the world watches anxiously.
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