Asked whether China was going to invade India, a former Indian army chief told an Indian news agency that the Chinese had sung Punjabi songs during the 1962 clashes and a 1967 clash.
In addition, the Indian military officer has rejected the Chinese army's claim and message that Indian soldiers have significant experience of fighting in severe cold, they have been given psychological training to operate on short notice. Ladakh has seen heavy snowfall since November, with up to 40 feet. The temperature drops to minus 30 to 40 degrees. Extreme cold winds blow and snow closes roads.
Troubled by the cold in Ladakh, Indian military officers were already making similar speculations, while retired Indian generals and defense analysts expect a long, turbulent winter in eastern Ladakh this year.
According to the British news agency Reuters, there have been three incidents of warning firing in the western Himalayas at the end of last month where the armies of the two countries are facing each other.
"Thankfully, it was just aerial firing and the soldiers did not shoot at each other," an official said. An aerial shooting occurred on the northern shore of Lake Pengong Tsu when a meeting between Indian Foreign Minister Subramanian J. Shankar and his Chinese counterpart Wang Yi was scheduled to take place in Moscow last Thursday.
