Re:India bans TikTok, WeChat, and dozens of other Chinese apps
by stickfigure on Monday June 29, 2020 @04:13PM
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I agree that "shootouts" is the wrong word, but "melee" doesn't quite capture the gruesomeness of human beings beating each other to death with spiked clubs.
Re:India bans TikTok, WeChat, and dozens of other Chinese apps
by azinman2 on Monday June 29, 2020 @04:33PM
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20 Indian soldiers died just two weeks ago: https://www.cnn.com/2020/06/16/asia/china-india-border-clash...
Re:India bans TikTok, WeChat, and dozens of other Chinese apps
by ra7 on Monday June 29, 2020 @04:43PM
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Yes, I'm aware of the news. It still wasn't due to a "shootout".
> What’s happening along the Himalayan border is an unusual kind of warfare. As in the brawls last month, Chinese and Indian soldiers fought fiercely without firing a shot — at least that’s what officials on both sides contend. They say the soldiers followed their de facto border code not to use firearms and went at each other with fists, rocks and wooden clubs, some possibly studded with nails or wrapped in barbed wire.
From https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/16/world/asia/indian-china-b...
There are no "shootouts". There are standoffs sometimes (think once a year if you want to define regularity) due to the loosely demarcated Line of Actual Control (LAC) between India and China. It's usually a melee. Even the recent escalated incident wasn't a shootout. There are agreements between Indian and Chinese governments that prevent usage of firearms in standoffs like these.