The first such incident in more than a year,
according to India, occurred when Indian troops and Chinese troops engaged in
combat in a disputed area near the border.
Since a violent conflict that resulted in at least
24 servicemen is killed in 2020, the nations have been attempting to defuse
tensions.
However, the Indian army said on Monday that a
conflict had taken place last Friday in the Tawang sector in the eastern Indian
state of Arunachal Pradesh.
Several troops sustained minor injuries as a result
of the involvement of both sides.
China has not yet responded to the standoff.
However, according to a source in the Indian army quoted by Reuters, at least
six Indian soldiers were hurt.
The Indian army said that "both sides instantly
disengaged from the region."
It further stated that soon thereafter, officers
from both sides met "to restore peace and tranquility."
Rajnath Singh, India's minister of defense, stated
in front of the house on Tuesday that no Indian soldiers had been "hurt or
gravely injured" in the fight and that the situation had been "taken
up at diplomatic levels."
He continued by saying that "Indian military
commanders promptly intervened, and PLA men returned to their posts."
The Line of Actual Control, often known as LAC, is a
disputed 3,440km (2,100 mile) long de facto boundary that connects China and
India. The line may move due to the existence of rivers, lakes, and snowcaps.
At certain moments, the soldiers on either side—representing two of the biggest
armies in the world come face to face.
Sometimes tensions rise to the point of clashes.
However, following a significant combat in June 2020 in the Galwan Valley in
the Ladakh area considerably further to the west, where 20 Indian soldiers and
at least four Chinese soldiers killed, both sides have been attempting to
deescalate.
It had been 45 years since the last fatal clash
between the two groups in the region, which was fought with sticks and clubs
rather than firearms.
In January 2021, there were casualties among the
troops on both sides. It occurred at the Bhutan-Nepal border in the Indian
state of Sikkim, which borders both China and India.
Both nations started withdrawing their troops from a
disputed territory along a remote border area in the western Himalayas in
September after reaching an agreement to do so.