Beijing is striving diligently to boost its adversarial strength in order to strengthen its military at a time when It wants to ” establish the proper place” for the border dispute with India. India Today has learned that despite the diplomatic goodwill on display between China and India during the G20 summit last week in New Delhi, Beijing is preparing to repeat the Galwan incident.
China is busy acquiring improvised hand-combat weapons similar to those used in the deadly Galwan conflict of 2020 despite holding disengagement talks and advocating for peace in the border dispute, India Today has learned. Experts fear that the weapons could be used against Indian soldiers on the disputed Line of Actual Control (LAC).
The People’s Liberation Army (PLA) of China has obtained “combined maces,” a type of “cold weapon” that was used in the 2020 Galwan Valley dispute and resulted in the deaths of 20 Indian soldiers. After the fight, there were several rounds of talks on the disengagement process as well as a military standoff with China.
A combined mace is a mace that has been reinforced with spikes and sharp edges for use in fighting.
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Besides its recent public stance, China’s army put out a tender in January of this year to buy spiked maces. A month later, the purchases were made. The PLA announced two purchase inquiries, according to data on the military procurement network. The other was for combining maces, whereas the first was for maces.
At the Line of Actual Control between India and China, spiked weapons are now a familiar sight.
Several accounts claim that the People’s Armed Police in Tianjin have previously used maces to combat criminals while on patrol. The usage of axes in battle has also been trained for PLA soldiers.
The PLA ordered 2,600 of these maces, according to an another account.
What China has purchased?
As per the purchase order, the mace is around 1.8 metres long. It consists of three main parts — the hammer head, the rod body, and the rod drill.
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