China, India’s timeline on border clashes differs

Bloomberg

China’s defense ministry urged India to work with Beijing to ease tensions along their disputed border, while recounting its version of the events that lead to the deadly clashes between troops high in the Himalayas last week.
Indian soldiers crossed the border on May 6 to construct barriers that blocked Chinese troops, which led to an escalation of tensions, said China’s Ministry of National Defense spokesman Senior Colonel Wu Qian during a press briefing.
Wu reiterated Beijing’s claim of sovereignty over the Galwan valley in the Ladakh area on the India-China border, where 20 Indian soldiers lost their lives in the skirmish on June 15.
India’s Foreign Minister Subrahmanyam Jaishankar told his Chinese counterpart Wang Yi on June 17 the Chinese army tried to erect a post in the Galwan Valley on the Indian side of the Line of Actual Control — a 2,167 mile un-demarcated border. In a statement after the call, New Delhi accused China of an “intent to change the facts on ground in violation of all our agreements to not change the status quo.”