It took millions of years for a glacier, now gone, to dig in the valley of the Galwan, the heart of the Himalayas, narrow trench linking the tibetan plateau and the Indus river basin. It will be a matter of a few decades the people’s liberation Army (PLA), the army of the people’s Republic of China, for the nibble slowly until it is struck the lines of indian, in the evening of June 15, 2020. It is in the middle of the night, at 4,300 meters of altitude, in a lunar landscape, bordered by rocky peaks, where the cold kills faster than arms, that 20 indian soldiers and a number…

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