Chinese and Indian troops fought last week at Naku La, on the border between Sikkim state and the Tibet region, leaving casualties on both sides, according to Indian military sources
* Indian and Chinese troops fought last week in Naku La, in the remote Himalayas
* Indian sources said fight happened when Chinese patrol came to their territory
* At least 20 Chinese troops and four Indian soldiers were injured, sources added
* Comes six months after battle between the two sides left at least 20 troops dead
Indian and Chinese troops brawled on their contested Himalayan border leaving injuries on both sides, military sources and media reports said Monday.
The latest fight took place Wednesday last week at Naku La, in Sikkim state, after China tried to send a patrol on to Indian territory, Indian military sources said.
The clash left at least 20 Chinese troops and four Indian troops injured, according to the same sources whose figures could not be independently verified.
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WNU Editor: This clash occurred in the Indian state of Sikkim.
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Maybe this is more than a few miles of territory in Sikkim.
Take Sikkim and you cut off Assam, Nagaland, Meghalaya, Mizorum, Manipur and Arunachal Pradesh.
No nation likes to be bisected.
Taking Sikkim would make India holding the eastern states problematic. Nagaland has an low intensity insurgency. China could supply them to sap the strength of India. China claims Arunachal Pradesh. The British took it visa the might makes right route. China has a good claim.
India has a better claim. The area is culturally more like India than Chinese, if Chinese at all. Nagaland would be better off with India than independent. Indian Hindus can be quite pig headed and worse like people everywhere and need to be better. But of India was gone from Nagaland, the inhabitants of Nagaland would rue the day.
It is only 50 to 70 miles from the border to the capital and crossroads of Siliguri. Maybe the Chinese are think 2 or 3 generations out. Certain if the Chinese took more of Northern Sikkim and were on 2 sides of Nepal and Bhutan instead of one, they intimidate them into being hostage allies in the UN and other forums.
And all the doofuses would point to is that China has more votes.
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