How the Crisis Unfolded

5 May 2020: Indian and Chinese troops clash on the Pangong Tso beach, triggering a standoff.

10 May 2020: Another clash takes place at Pangong Tso. Around 72 Indian soldiers are injured. There is also a small fight between the troops at Naku La in Sikkim the same day.

21 May 2020: Chinese soldiers enter the Indian territory in Galwan Valley of Ladakh and demand halting of road construction process that India is undertaking.

24 May 2020: A press report confirms that PLA has intruded into India at three places: Hot Springs, Patrol Point 14, and Patrol Point 15. Both Indian and Chinese troops are deployed in the regions.

30 May 2020: More reports emerge saying that China is ‘consolidating its positions’ in the Galwan Valley. By some accounts, Chinese incursions in the Indian territory in Ladakh are as deep as its claim line of 1959. By implication, what China could not do until now, it did in 2020.

6 June 2020: Indian-Chinese military commanders’ hold talks at Chushul-Moldo Border Meeting Point.

15 June 2020: Indian and Chinese troops clash for nearly six hours at Patrol Point 14 in the Galwan Valley over PLA reneging the border agreement of a few days back. In a thr