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China reinforced its troops near the Indian border with mountain climbers and martial arts fighters shortly before a deadly clash this month, state media reported.
Tensions are common between the two nuclear-armed neighbours in the mountainous border terrain, but this month’s fighting was their deadliest encounter in over 50 years.
Five new militia divisions including former members of a Mount Everest Olympic torch relay team and fighters from a mixed martial arts club presented themselves for inspection at Lhasa on June 15, official military newspaper China National Defence News reported.
State broadcaster CCTV showed footage of hundreds of new troops lining up in the Tibetan capital.
Tibet commander Wang Haijiang said the Enbo Fight Club recruits would “greatly raise the organization and mobilization strength” of troops and their “rapid response and support ability,” China National Defence News reported, although he did not explicitly confirm their deployment was linked to ongoing border tensions.
Chinese and Indian troops clashed later that day in the most violent confrontation between the two powers in decades, in the Ladakh region 1,300 kilometres away.
India says 20 of its own soldiers were killed in brutal hand-to-hand combat that day, while China suffered an unknown number of casualties.
BEIJING AFP June28, 2020
Martin Milton Monday, 29 June 2020 02:54 PM
It will be an excellent move if Sri Lanka also sends groups of her Armed Forces, from all sectors, STF, Army, Navy, Air Force and Police (a few 'special squads') for intensive Martial Arts training in China and Japan as soon as possible. Really speaking this training should start at a very young age, but nevertheless at least now will be some consolation! At the least train them in Sri Lanka's own Martial Arts 'ANGAMPORA' ! MM
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