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Chinese netizens and independent commentators are expressing frustration over Chinese authorities’ silence on a recent incident along the disputed China-India border.A video taken near the Pangong Tso Lake region, which is part of a sovereignty dispute between China and India, shows a Chinese PLA soldier being beaten, and allegedly captured, by Indian soldiers during a skirmish that included both sides throwing rocks at each other.
What angers Chinese netizens most, is that the beaten Chinese soldier was abandoned by his cowardly comrades. In addition, no official CCP statement was issued, nor has there been any relevant coverage in Chinese state media.
China and India share a border of nearly 1,242 miles, of which more than 46,332 square miles of land are subject to territorial disputes. While both China and India have, in principle, agreed to resolve the dispute peacefully, there have been signs of recent gun-fights.
On May 31, a video circulated on the Internet shows a convoy of PLA’s “Brave Warriors” vehicles being attacked with sticks and stones by a group of Indian soldiers on a road near Pangong Tso Lake. During a physical squirmish, one Chinese soldier was beaten and subdued on the ground, shouting, “Help!” But instead of helping their buddy, the others backed their truck away.
Zhang Mingdao, who works for U.S. based Free Press, told NTD’s China Forbidden News, in a phone interview on June 2nd: “I got angry right away when I saw it [the video], when I saw this bunch of cowards. All they do every day is all talk and no action. All they talk about every day is how impressive their country [China] is. Every day they act like ‘Wolf Warriors’ when they are bullying Chinese citizens, bullying Taiwan, bullying Hong Kong.”
In the video, a group of PLA soldiers and Indian soldiers are shown at a distance throwing rocks at each other. The “Brave Warriors” armored trucks got pelted and backed away, while the Indian soldiers took the opportunity to push forward. According to rumours online, the wounded Chinese soldier was eventually taken captive by the Indian soldiers.
Zhang Mingdao: “How come you still get beaten up when you’re driving an armored vehicle? If you were itching for a fight, why didn’t you use your guns? When the CCP kills [Chinese] citizens, it dares to bring tanks to Tiananmen Square. You [CCP] said you would protect Chinese territory, saying how precious every inch of Chinese territory is, shouting your slogans loud and clear. But when it’s time to step onto the battlefield, everyone acts like a shrinking turtle, the officers don’t dare to give orders, and the soldiers don’t dare to shoot their guns.”
Ge Bidong, an independent China scholar, told NTD that many people who understand military affairs have been saying that the CCP’s military at present is in a precarious state, as it has lost confidence from within its ranks.
Ge Bidong: “In such a state, if there is no command and no army squads, he [a soldier] will fall back and flee. In unfavorable circumstances, as you have seen here, it shows a lack of leadership. With no basic on-site rescue strategies, they are merely a bunch of machines on a mission.”
Since May 2020, China and India have had a number of conflicts on their shared border. There was even news that the CCP has deployed an additional 5,000 soldiers to the area.
China commentator Gobi Dong told NTD that the CCP authorities are acting like “Wolf Warriors” making use of the chaos in the end times.
Gobi Dong: “It [the CCP] is posturing to expand Chinese territory in the South China Sea, in Vietnam, the Philippines, and Malaysia. And the China-India border [conflict] is also an attempt at territorial expansion. This attitude of expansion also has to do with the CCP’s recently implemented Hong Kong National Security Law. Ultimately, the CCP is now posing as a ‘Wolf Warrior’, saying: This is how the world is, I’m a beast, what should I be afraid of? I’m a ‘Money Wolf’, what am I afraid of?”
A report in Hong Kong’s Apple Daily quoted military affairs commentator Huang Dong as saying that the repulsed “Brave Warriors” multi-purpose truck belonged to the CCP’s military, and that such a confrontation between China and India, in which they mobilized sea, land and air military resources, has never been seen since the founding of the communist party.
Independent China scholar, Ge Bidong: “Looking back at that video, when the soldier fell to the ground, a dozen trucks backed off instead of going in for a rescue, and it seemed like they were running away. This also indicates a problem, that while the CCP is demonstrating its ‘Wolf Warrior’-like behavior, its military is not showing mature ‘Wolf Warrior’-like postures. This army is afraid of war. That soldier didn’t actually want to fight, because this army is already terribly corrupt, so corrupt that even the soldiers don’t want to fight, they just had no choice.”
So far, the CCP authorities have only spoken through the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, claiming that the overall situation on the China-India border is stable and under control. They have not yet issued an official statement on this particular incident.
Zhang Mingdao: “I have been searching the internet for quite some time, but it seems that this incident has not been reported inside China. I just called and asked my friends in China. They knew about it, but they didn’t comment. Now, the so-called elite in the country are also quite interesting. It would make sense for them to speak up now to urge the relevant authorities, departments and leaders. Right?”
The video of a Chinese soldier being beaten over the head by Indian soldiers has caused many Chinese netizens to express their outrage, shouting, “Shame!” On Twitter, many overseas Chinese-speaking users have also tweeted comments on the incident. But the CCP’s state media are only keen on reporting about a black American being killed in the United States, and are silent about Chinese soldiers being beaten.
A Netizen commented: “We Chinese don’t care at all about soldiers, we only care about black Americans. So when [our] soldiers get beaten up, we should just ignore it.”
