{"id":1198479,"date":"2022-01-07T22:49:11","date_gmt":"2022-01-08T03:49:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1198479"},"modified":"2022-01-07T22:49:15","modified_gmt":"2022-01-08T03:49:15","slug":"chinese-military-raffling-himalayan-rock-from-crushing-2020-battle-loss-to-india","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/chinese-military-raffling-himalayan-rock-from-crushing-2020-battle-loss-to-india\/","title":{"rendered":"Chinese Military Raffling Himalayan Rock from Crushing 2020 Battle Loss to India"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fchinese-military-raffling-himalayan-rock-from-crushing-2020-battle-loss-to-india%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1198479&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p class=\"subheading\">China\u2019s People\u2019s Liberation Army (PLA) on Friday advertised an upcoming raffle via social media in which it plans to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.globaltimes.cn\/page\/202201\/1245358.shtml\">give away<\/a> a stone taken from the Galwan Valley in northern India\u2019s Ladakh state to \u201c10 lucky netizens,\u201d China\u2019s state-run <em>Global Times<\/em> reported.<\/p>\n<p>The PLA\u2019s Western Theater Command announced the raffle on January 7 through a notice posted by its official Sina Weibo account. Sina Weibo is a Chinese microblogging platform often likened to Twitter. The blog post detailed the command\u2019s plans to \u201crandomly choose 10 lucky netizens from those who reposted the notice and send them a stone from the Galwan Valley as a present,\u201d according to the <em>Global Times<\/em>.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p>The advertisement was accompanied by a photograph of&nbsp;Chinese PLA soldiers \u201cpatrolling the Galwan Valley\u201d along a rockface in the western Himalayas. The command superimposed Chinese characters onto the image reading, \u201cSplendid landscape, no inch to give up.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The <em>Global Times<\/em> quoted some Sina Weibo posts allegedly made by anonymous Chinese \u201cnetizens,\u201d or social media users, in reaction to the PLA raffle. One such reaction \u201cpraised\u201d the giveaway, describing it as \u201ca very meaningful present as such a stone showed Chinese people\u2019s attitude of not giving up one inch of the country\u2019s territory.\u201d<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_14467947\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/India-border-road.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-14467947\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/India-border-road.jpg\" alt=\"GAGANGIR, KASHMIR, INDIA - SEPTEMBER 2: Indian army convoy carrying reinforcements and supplies, drive towards Leh, on a highway bordering China, on September 2, 2020 in Gagangir, India. India and China, have stumbled once again into a bloody clash over their shared border. India rushed additional troops to Ladakh after claiming to have foiled what it called China&#039;s provocative maneuvers to change the status of Line of Actual Control, the de-facto border between the two countries, in the Himalayan region. As many as 20 Indian soldiers were killed in a &quot;violent face-off&quot; with Chinese troops in June this year in the Galwan Valley along the Himalayas. Chinese and Indian troops attacked each other with batons and rocks. The deadliest clash since the 1962 India-China war and both have not exchanged gunfire at the border since 1967. Since the recent clash, there has been no sign of a breakthrough. India said its soldiers were killed by Chinese troops when top commanders had agreed to defuse tensions on the Line of Actual Control, the disputed border between the two nuclear-armed neighbours. China rejected the allegations, blaming Indian soldiers for provoking the conflict, which took place at the freezing height of 14,000 feet. The killing of soldiers has led to a call for boycott of Chinese goods in India. (Photo by Yawar Nazir\/Getty Images)\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Indian army convoy carrying reinforcements and supplies, drive towards Leh, on a highway bordering China, on September 2, 2020, in Gagangir, India. India and China have stumbled once again into a bloody clash over their shared border. (Photo by Yawar Nazir\/Getty Images)<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p>China\u2019s PLA has been in a border <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2022\/01\/05\/reports-china-building-bridge-across-indian-border-lake\/\">standoff<\/a> with the Indian Army along the two nations\u2019 unmarked Himalayan boundary since June 15, 2020, when Indian and Chinese border regiments <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/asia\/2021\/05\/21\/report-china-rebuilding-military-presence-along-indian-border\/\">faced off<\/a> in a deadly melee in Galwan Valley. The skirmish killed 20 Indian troops and a reported 40 Chinese soldiers, though Beijing officially confirmed just two PLA deaths from the incident, allowing it to falsely claim victory. The militaries of both China and India deployed extra troops and equipment to their unmarked Himalayan border in the weeks and months following the conflict in Ladakh. The encounter reportedly <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/asia\/2021\/02\/22\/chinese-military-shares-alleged-video-of-deadly-2020-indian-border-clash\/\">sparked<\/a> after Chinese troops encroached into Indian territory in an overnight operation.<\/p>\n<p>China\u2019s PLA allegedly <a href=\"https:\/\/www.indiatoday.in\/india\/story\/chinese-army-returns-to-exercise-areas-near-eastern-ladakh-indian-troops-keep-close-watch-1804123-2021-05-18\">beefed up<\/a> its military presence along various locations spanning China\u2019s western Himalayan border with India in the days immediately preceding May 17, 2021, according to a report by <em>India Today<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cChinese forces are back to their traditional training areas for an exercise near Eastern Ladakh,\u201d anonymous sources allegedly told <em>India Today<\/em> at the time.<\/p>\n<p>The <em>Global Times<\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.globaltimes.cn\/page\/202105\/1223986.shtml\">dismissed<\/a> the <em>India Today<\/em> report as exaggerated on May 20, 2021, claiming the border troop buildup by the PLA along China\u2019s border with India earlier that month was merely \u201croutine.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201c[I]t is routine for the Indian and Chinese armies to make deployments along the border in summer, with experts warning India not to misjudge the situation and trigger a new round of conflict,\u201d the Chinese state media outlet wrote.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>China\u2019s People\u2019s Liberation Army (PLA) on Friday advertised an upcoming raffle via social media in which it plans to give away a stone taken from the Galwan Valley in northern &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1198479","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1198479","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/37"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1198479"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1198479\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1198479"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1198479"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1198479"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}