Ladakh is located along the Line of Actual Control (LAC), and is under Indian control as well as bordering Pakistan and China.

PLA forces were spotted mobilising near the Himalayan region in May, with the lethal June clash coming after the

Chinese forces encroached up to 4km into Indian territory.

Jin Canrong, a professor of international relations at Beijing’s Renmin University, added China did not “publicise it because we solved the problem beautifully’, and said: “They didn’t publicise it, either, because they lost so miserably.”