显然,中方画出来的地点选择,目的是为了把印度说成是跨过实控线的侵略一方。问题是,当时真是这样的吗?
Chinese state media tonight released some footage from one of the clashes along the Galwan river that took place on June 15th. It's tricky to geolocate but my best idea (explained below) is that it shows Chinese forces SLIGHTY (<50m) beyond their interpretation of the LAC. pic.twitter.com/SOGHKrxb9V
— Nathan Ruser (@Nrg8000) February 19, 2021
In later shots you can see that there's a large landslide slip to that rock, which I believer you can SLIGHTLY see in the satellite imagery (shadows make it hard) and it is certainly not before the LAC. pic.twitter.com/LaGpaFBI3p
— Nathan Ruser (@Nrg8000) February 19, 2021
Finally, there is a short clip that includes footage of the final 'frontline' one of the tents built on that sandbank at the 'bend-in-the-river', with Chinese soldiers lining up in front of it, and this position is considerably back from where the Chinese forced started. pic.twitter.com/lWYt5X863e
— Nathan Ruser (@Nrg8000) February 19, 2021
But, in short, IF one considers the river itself to mark the LAC at that bend in the Galwan Valley, Chinese forces had crossed the river (really a stream) by the time contact between them and Indian forced began on the afternoon of the 15th. pic.twitter.com/jd1VNwzQuN
— Nathan Ruser (@Nrg8000) February 19, 2021