China is seeding a “fake news” story about using microwave weapons to defeat Indian forces in an alleged border clash, according to Indian officials.
“It’s pure and poor psyops from China,” an Indian official told the Washington Examiner.
It’s a dismissive response to a Beijing-based professor's assertion that Chinese forces “turned the mountain tops into a microwave oven” in a recent clash with India that allowed Beijing to recapture two key hilltops in a disputed border region. The Indian military also has issued a denial, noting that they remain in control of the high ground.
“The claims cited by these media reports are fake,” a graphic tweeted by the Indian Army says. “No such incident has taken place in Ladakh.”
The professor claimed that Chinese forces used the weapons in order to fight while honoring a decades-old agreement that the two nuclear-armed neighbors would not use firearms in the border disputes; a recent melee involving “rods, spears, clubs and sharp weapons” reportedly left at least 20 dead.
“In 15 minutes, those occupying the hilltops all began to vomit,” Renmin University professor of international relations Jin Canrong said, per The Times of London. “They couldn’t stand up, so they fled. This was how we retook the ground.”
The professor claimed that the attack took place on Aug. 29, but the Indian official said that never happened.
“If they got us out of the heights, why is China still asking India to withdraw from these heights?” the source replied. “Our soldiers and tanks/equipment still there, and we have not moved down from heights.”
Indian officials acknowledged in early September that Chinese forces had taken a “provocative” step on Aug. 29, but Chinese officials at the time seemed to acknowledge that India remained in control of the disputed area.
“We urge India to strictly discipline its border troops, stop all provocations at once, immediately withdraw all personnel who illegally trespassed across [the unofficial boundary of the disputed area], and stop taking any actions that may escalate tensions or complicate matters,” Chinese Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Hua Chunying said in early September.
It’s "not clear" why a Chinese professor would make this assertion.
“It could either be just bravado or the platform to use to launch the psyops,” the Indian official said.
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