India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi issued a new warning to China over deadly border tensions on Saturday, using his most important speech of the ...
India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi reviews a guard of honour during a ceremony to celebrate India's 74th Independence Day at the Red Fort in New Delhi on Aug 15, 2020. NEW DELHI: India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi issued a new warning to China over deadly border tensions on Saturday , using his most important speech of the year to promise to build a stronger military.
Modi mentioned confrontations with Pakistan and China on their disputed borders, but without naming either country. "India's integrity is supreme for us. What we can do, what our soldiers can do - everyone saw that in Ladakh," referring to aTwenty Indian soldiers were killed in the clash, which saw the two sides fighting with batons, stones and bare fists.The two sides have blamed each other for the fighting and tens of thousands of Indian and Chinese troops, who also fought a border war in 1962, have since been sent to the region.
Modi also said that his priority was getting India out of the crisis caused by the coronavirus pandemic.
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