Featured PLA offensive in Pangong resumes, Chinese take two hilltops on Indian side

[Dalit]

@drumstick

Care to explain?

His explanation will be denial.

 

[Joe1351]

PLA offensive in Pangong resumes, Chinese take two hilltops on Indian side

The failure of three months of military and diplomatic dialogue in persuading Beijing to withdraw its troops from Eastern Ladakh was underlined on Sunday when hundreds of soldiers of China’s People’s Liberation Army (PLA) crossed into the Indian side of the Line of Actual Control (LAC) south of Pangong Tso lake, occupied a mountain called Helmet Top and began building fortifications.

Credible government sources say Indian soldiers from the nearby Thakung post intervened, to try and prevent the PLA from building defences. Physical clashes followed, though there are no reports of firing or casualties on either side.

Sources say, the PLA now occupies Helmet Top, as well as a nearby feature called Black Top, both of which are on the Indian side of the LAC. From here, Chinese soldiers can observe and track Indian movements across the Pangong lake and as far away as India’s tactically vital Chushul garrison.

“On the night of 29/30 August, PLA troops violated the consensus arrived at during military and diplomatic engagements… and carried out provocative military movements to change the status quo,” said the Indian army on Monday.

“Indian troops pre-empted this PLA activity on the southern bank of Pangong Tso Lake, undertook measures to strengthen our positions and thwart Chinese intentions to unilaterally change facts on ground,” said the army statement.

“A brigade commander-level flag meeting is in progress in Chushul to resolve the issues,” it said.

On Monday, the PLA Western Theater Command, which is responsible for the entire Sino-Indian border, accused India of “illegally crossing the line” on August 31 at two points – the south bank of Pangong Lake and near Requin Pass. The statement said India had "blatantly provoked and caused tension on the border” and had “undermined the consensus reached” at the diplomatic and military talks.

Stating that "This move by the Indian side seriously violated China's territorial sovereignty,” the PLA said it, is "taking necessary countermeasures, will pay close attention to developments and resolutely safeguard China's territorial sovereignty and peace and stability in border areas.”

Since the PLA statement refers to Monday, it is not clear whether it refers to the same operation as the India statement, or to a retaliatory operation that the Indian Army might have chosen to remain silent about.

The Pangong sector has been bitterly contested since the PLA trespassed across the LAC here in mid-May. The bulk of the Chinese force occupied the lake’s northern bank, up to a point called Finger 4. Meanwhile, several hundred PLA soldiers climbed the hills that overlook Pangong lake from the north and entrenched themselves on a dominating height called Green Top, where they still remain.

Meanwhile, another 2,000 Chinese soldiers crossed the LAC into the Pangong lake’s south bank and began patrolling up to a mountain called Black Top, which adjoins Helmet Top and India’s important Thakung Post.

Both Black Top and Helmet Top are on India’s side of the LAC. The PLA’s occupation of both features has effectively shifted the LAC westwards, to China’s advantage.

Sources on the ground say the PLA brought along enough building materials to Helmet Top to construct fortifications for three-four infantry companies (300-400 soldiers).

On the north bank of the Pangong lake, the PLA has shifted the LAC to its advantage by about eight kilometres, from Finger 8 to Finger 4. On the south bank, however, the strongly held Thakung post – which has a mixed garrison of army soldiers and Indo-Tibetan Border Police (ITBP) troopers – continues to dominate the Pangong lake’s southern bank and observe Chinese activity on the lake and even on the north bank.

India has reinforced Eastern Ladakh strongly and there is anger amongst soldiers and young officers at what they perceive as Chinese perfidy. Many are convinced China is maintaining the pretence of dialogue and negotiations in order to create the opportunity to occupy more Indian territory.

“The Indian Army is committed to maintaining peace and tranquillity through dialogue, but is also equally determined to protect its territorial integrity,” stated the army tersely on Monday.

Even as the PLA’s continuing aggression in Pangong hogs the spotlight, senior Indian planners apprehend this might be a Chinese ploy to divert attention from Depsang, in Northern Ladakh, which might be China’s actual target.

Depsang offers the shortest and easiest route for Indian armoured columns to reach the strategic Tibet-Xinjiang road (Highway G219), the security of which is Beijing’s core sensitive in this area. PLA intrusions 15 kilometres into the Depsang sector have currently blocked Indian patrols’ routes to the LAC.

The Chinese are also clinging to advantageous positions they occupied in the Hot Spring – Gogra area. Despite an agreed withdrawal plan, the PLA is refusing to withdraw from a dominating hill feature its soldiers have occupied in the vicinity of India’s Gogra Post.

PLA aggression in Pangong resumes, Indian Special Forces launch a counter

Sources say Indian soldiers from nearby Thakung post intervened, to try and prevent PLA from building defences. Physical clashes followed, but no reports of firing or casualties on either side

www.business-standard.com

Looks like you conveniently left out some of the paragraph where Chinese losing some of their territories Here is complete article

By Ajai Shukla

Business Standard, 1st Sept 20



The failure of three months of military and diplomatic dialogue in persuading Beijing to withdraw its troops from Eastern Ladakh was underlined on Sunday when hundreds of soldiers of China’s People’s Liberation Army (PLA) crossed into the Indian side of the Line of Actual Control (LAC) south of Pangong Tso lake, occupied a mountain called Helmet Top and began building fortifications.



Credible government sources say Indian soldiers from the nearby Thakung post intervened, to try and prevent the PLA from building defences. Physical clashes followed, though there are no reports of firing or casualties on either side.



Sources say, the PLA now occupies Helmet Top, as well as a nearby feature called Black Top, both of which are on the Indian side of the LAC. From here, Chinese soldiers can observe and track Indian movements across the Pangong lake and as far away as India’s tactically vital Chushul garrison.



“On the night of 29/30 August, PLA troops violated the consensus arrived at during military and diplomatic engagements… and carried out provocative military movements to change the status quo,” said the Indian army on Monday.



“Indian troops pre-empted this PLA activity on the southern bank of Pangong Tso Lake, undertook measures to strengthen our positions and thwart Chinese intentions to unilaterally change facts on ground,” said the army statement.



“A brigade commander-level flag meeting is in progress in Chushul to resolve the issues,” it said.



Indian officials, however, are keeping silent about a counter operation, launched on Sunday night by soldiers of a secretive Indian commando force called the Special Frontier Force (SFF). Consisting of soldiers recruited from the Tibetan refugee community in India and formed into what are termed “Vikas battalions”, an SFF detachment is reported to have occupied key heights that China claims as their own.



There are differing accounts of what transpired but, according to one source, the SFF detachment clashed with Chinese troops and inflicted significant casualties on them. One Tibetan SFF officer was reportedly killed and at least two injured in the operation.



On Monday, the PLA Western Theater Command, which is responsible for the entire Sino-Indian border, accused India of “illegally crossing the line” on August 31 at two points – the south bank of Pangong Lake and near Rezang La. The statement said India had "blatantly provoked and caused tension on the border” and had “undermined the consensus reached” at the diplomatic and military talks.



Stating that "This move by the Indian side seriously violated China's territorial sovereignty,” the PLA said it, is "taking necessary countermeasures, will pay close attention to developments and resolutely safeguard China's territorial sovereignty and peace and stability in border areas.”



The Pangong sector has been bitterly contested since the PLA trespassed across the LAC here in mid-May. The bulk of the Chinese force occupied the lake’s northern bank, up to a point called Finger 4. Meanwhile, several hundred PLA soldiers climbed the hills that overlook Pangong lake from the north and entrenched themselves on a dominating height called Green Top, where they still remain.



Meanwhile, another 2,000 Chinese soldiers crossed the LAC into the Pangong lake’s south bank and began patrolling up to a mountain called Black Top, which adjoins Helmet Top and India’s important Thakung Post.



Both Black Top and Helmet Top are on India’s side of the LAC. The PLA’s occupation of both features has effectively shifted the LAC westwards, to China’s advantage.



Sources on the ground say the PLA brought along enough building materials to Helmet Top to construct fortifications for three-four infantry companies (300-400 soldiers).



On the north bank of the Pangong lake, the PLA has shifted the LAC to its advantage by about eight kilometres, from Finger 8 to Finger 4. On the south bank, however, the strongly held Thakung post – which has a mixed garrison of army soldiers and Indo-Tibetan Border Police (ITBP) troopers – continues to dominate the Pangong lake’s southern bank and observe Chinese activity on the lake and even on the north bank.



India has reinforced Eastern Ladakh strongly and there is anger amongst soldiers and young officers at what they perceive as Chinese perfidy. Many are convinced China is maintaining the pretence of dialogue and negotiations in order to create the opportunity to occupy more Indian territory.



“The Indian Army is committed to maintaining peace and tranquillity through dialogue, but is also equally determined to protect its territorial integrity,” stated the army tersely on Monday.



Even as the PLA’s continuing aggression in Pangong hogs the spotlight, senior Indian planners apprehend this might be a Chinese ploy to divert attention from Depsang, in Northern Ladakh, which might be China’s actual target.



Depsang offers the shortest and easiest route for Indian armoured columns to reach the strategic Tibet-Xinjiang road (Highway G219), the security of which is Beijing’s core sensitive in this area. PLA intrusions 15 kilometres into the Depsang sector have currently blocked Indian patrols’ routes to the LAC.



The Chinese are also clinging to advantageous positions they occupied in the Hot Spring – Gogra area. Despite an agreed withdrawal plan, the PLA is refusing to withdraw from a dominating hill feature its soldiers have occupied in the vicinity of India’s Gogra Post.

 

[letsrock]

Looks like you conveniently left out some of the paragraph where Chinese losing some of their territories Here is complete article

By Ajai Shukla

Business Standard, 1st Sept 20



The failure of three months of military and diplomatic dialogue in persuading Beijing to withdraw its troops from Eastern Ladakh was underlined on Sunday when hundreds of soldiers of China’s People’s Liberation Army (PLA) crossed into the Indian side of the Line of Actual Control (LAC) south of Pangong Tso lake, occupied a mountain called Helmet Top and began building fortifications.



Credible government sources say Indian soldiers from the nearby Thakung post intervened, to try and prevent the PLA from building defences. Physical clashes followed, though there are no reports of firing or casualties on either side.



Sources say, the PLA now occupies Helmet Top, as well as a nearby feature called Black Top, both of which are on the Indian side of the LAC. From here, Chinese soldiers can observe and track Indian movements across the Pangong lake and as far away as India’s tactically vital Chushul garrison.



“On the night of 29/30 August, PLA troops violated the consensus arrived at during military and diplomatic engagements… and carried out provocative military movements to change the status quo,” said the Indian army on Monday.



“Indian troops pre-empted this PLA activity on the southern bank of Pangong Tso Lake, undertook measures to strengthen our positions and thwart Chinese intentions to unilaterally change facts on ground,” said the army statement.



“A brigade commander-level flag meeting is in progress in Chushul to resolve the issues,” it said.



Indian officials, however, are keeping silent about a counter operation, launched on Sunday night by soldiers of a secretive Indian commando force called the Special Frontier Force (SFF). Consisting of soldiers recruited from the Tibetan refugee community in India and formed into what are termed “Vikas battalions”, an SFF detachment is reported to have occupied key heights that China claims as their own.



There are differing accounts of what transpired but, according to one source, the SFF detachment clashed with Chinese troops and inflicted significant casualties on them. One Tibetan SFF officer was reportedly killed and at least two injured in the operation.



On Monday, the PLA Western Theater Command, which is responsible for the entire Sino-Indian border, accused India of “illegally crossing the line” on August 31 at two points – the south bank of Pangong Lake and near Rezang La. The statement said India had "blatantly provoked and caused tension on the border” and had “undermined the consensus reached” at the diplomatic and military talks.



Stating that "This move by the Indian side seriously violated China's territorial sovereignty,” the PLA said it, is "taking necessary countermeasures, will pay close attention to developments and resolutely safeguard China's territorial sovereignty and peace and stability in border areas.”



The Pangong sector has been bitterly contested since the PLA trespassed across the LAC here in mid-May. The bulk of the Chinese force occupied the lake’s northern bank, up to a point called Finger 4. Meanwhile, several hundred PLA soldiers climbed the hills that overlook Pangong lake from the north and entrenched themselves on a dominating height called Green Top, where they still remain.



Meanwhile, another 2,000 Chinese soldiers crossed the LAC into the Pangong lake’s south bank and began patrolling up to a mountain called Black Top, which adjoins Helmet Top and India’s important Thakung Post.



Both Black Top and Helmet Top are on India’s side of the LAC. The PLA’s occupation of both features has effectively shifted the LAC westwards, to China’s advantage.



Sources on the ground say the PLA brought along enough building materials to Helmet Top to construct fortifications for three-four infantry companies (300-400 soldiers).



On the north bank of the Pangong lake, the PLA has shifted the LAC to its advantage by about eight kilometres, from Finger 8 to Finger 4. On the south bank, however, the strongly held Thakung post – which has a mixed garrison of army soldiers and Indo-Tibetan Border Police (ITBP) troopers – continues to dominate the Pangong lake’s southern bank and observe Chinese activity on the lake and even on the north bank.



India has reinforced Eastern Ladakh strongly and there is anger amongst soldiers and young officers at what they perceive as Chinese perfidy. Many are convinced China is maintaining the pretence of dialogue and negotiations in order to create the opportunity to occupy more Indian territory.



“The Indian Army is committed to maintaining peace and tranquillity through dialogue, but is also equally determined to protect its territorial integrity,” stated the army tersely on Monday.



Even as the PLA’s continuing aggression in Pangong hogs the spotlight, senior Indian planners apprehend this might be a Chinese ploy to divert attention from Depsang, in Northern Ladakh, which might be China’s actual target.



Depsang offers the shortest and easiest route for Indian armoured columns to reach the strategic Tibet-Xinjiang road (Highway G219), the security of which is Beijing’s core sensitive in this area. PLA intrusions 15 kilometres into the Depsang sector have currently blocked Indian patrols’ routes to the LAC.



The Chinese are also clinging to advantageous positions they occupied in the Hot Spring – Gogra area. Despite an agreed withdrawal plan, the PLA is refusing to withdraw from a dominating hill feature its soldiers have occupied in the vicinity of India’s Gogra Post.

So indians are aggressors again.

 

[drumstick]

@drumstick

Care to explain?

as usual pla tried some misadventure (borrowing this term for now) and came in the night to occupy the south tops on Pangong Tso,

Indian forces were very well aware of the troop movement and they blocked this infiltration bid by chinese.... in the process India now occupies the Black Top and Helmet Top....

there are many unconfirmed reports coming through on twitter and other media outlets... im not the one who want to spread propaganda ....
this time there was no physical scuffle.... no casualties reported on Indian side.... and not claimed from enemy as well...

but with this chinese embassy in India tried to protest.... why protest? go back from the border and we can talk.... now you claim the black top and helmet top ...

again the usual rhetoric of garbage times dishing more warnings.... come on guys this is such humiliating propaganda even for low level chinese ....

chinea wanted to buy time on discussion table.... and continue the military aggression on the ground.... we have both HUMINT, SIGINT and SATINT very well placed to predict what these chinese are upto.

but but buttt.... the usual posters will believe on twitter... because for them their army and political establishment fights and wins war on twitter only ....

while we type this and fight here, the cost of war is still going up each passing day for china.... bring it on china why give warnings and release videos?

 

[Beast]

as usual pla tried some misadventure (borrowing this term for now) and came in the night to occupy the south tops on Pangong Tso,

Indian forces were very well aware of the troop movement and they blocked this infiltration bid by chinese.... in the process India now occupies the Black Top and Helmet Top....

there are many unconfirmed reports coming through on twitter and other media outlets... im not the one who want to spread propaganda ....
this time there was no physical scuffle.... no casualties reported on Indian side.... and not claimed from enemy as well...

but with this chinese embassy in India tried to protest.... why protest? go back from the border and we can talk.... now you claim the black top and helmet top ...

again the usual rhetoric of garbage times dishing more warnings.... come on guys this is such humiliating propaganda even for low level chinese ....

chinea wanted to buy time on discussion table.... and continue the military aggression on the ground.... we have both HUMINT, SIGINT and SATINT very well placed to predict what these chinese are upto.

but but buttt.... the usual posters will believe on twitter... because for them their army and political establishment fights and wins war on twitter only ....

while we type this and fight here, the cost of war is still going up each passing day for china.... bring it on china why give warnings and release videos?

So u are saying you admit india aggression in the first place? So any action later will be justify by PLA later?

 

[IceCold]

What kind of a strange submissive military doctrine is this of India

Its referred to as "Cold Shower Doctrine" after "Cold Start"

 

[Secularindian]

LOL In Mountain Warfare

" One Which dominates the heights Matters"

SFF Captured Top Most ridges of the ares Dominating Features in Area

https://twitter.com/x/status/1300688226374410240

 

[drumstick]

So u are saying you admit india aggression in the first place? So any action later will be justify by PLA later?

see chinese were the aggressors but were sent back (not in body bags this time) ... this was a failed attempt militarily which china will try to hide and play on something else...

much hyped pla losing all the time, not able to do since May now... its September so four months entire pla with its so called bravery done nothing... of wait they released videos with chinese bravery

we still have plenty of intelligence inputs with us ... your next move must be very careful and calculated ... a big loss of face coming chinese way... xi jinping will is tatters soon...

and yes these intelligence inputs are based on our own satellite data and not borrowed once....

 

[Beast]

as usual pla tried some misadventure (borrowing this term for now) and came in the night to occupy the south tops on Pangong Tso,

Indian forces were very well aware of the troop movement and they blocked this infiltration bid by chinese.... in the process India now occupies the Black Top and Helmet Top....

there are many unconfirmed reports coming through on twitter and other media outlets... im not the one who want to spread propaganda ....
this time there was no physical scuffle.... no casualties reported on Indian side.... and not claimed from enemy as well...

but with this chinese embassy in India tried to protest.... why protest? go back from the border and we can talk.... now you claim the black top and helmet top ...

again the usual rhetoric of garbage times dishing more warnings.... come on guys this is such humiliating propaganda even for low level chinese ....

chinea wanted to buy time on discussion table.... and continue the military aggression on the ground.... we have both HUMINT, SIGINT and SATINT very well placed to predict what these chinese are upto.

but but buttt.... the usual posters will believe on twitter... because for them their army and political establishment fights and wins war on twitter only ....

while we type this and fight here, the cost of war is still going up each passing day for china.... bring it on china why give warnings and release videos?

We all know the standard and reliability of Indian media.

 

[macnurv]

Modi hai saab mumkin hai, including choking on your BS. Well Done India for electing this utter @$$ clown, by the way Malaysia just banned Indian nationals from entering starting on 7th of September. Great going.

 

[Beast]

fight fight and fight guys.... you will fight any other war then your own.... what a pathetic show here

After 20 Indian soldiers died and yet to score a kill. Indian still got the cheek to claim others as pathetic? What a joke!

 

[Novice09]

Oho... Shukla Ji... then it is a 100% authentic news...

INFORMATION WARFARE...

 

[drumstick]

@Beast is the only chinese holding fort here... and he is getting such a good beating right now.

where are other ccp cadres? why not bring them in? you are losing your arrogance.....that is expected now... you have lost your second fight ... now china will go back and try for a bigger fight to lose bigger....

beast beast beastttt..... you want more?

 

[Sulman Badshah]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1300649644850962433

 

[Trango Towers]

Conquering Indian lands continues. God speed PLA. Will shake hands with you soon from the other side.

Excellent