CHINA-PLA: CHINA NAMES BRIDGES AND ROADS IN AKSAI CHIN AFTER FOUR CHINESE SOLDIERS KILLED IN GALWAN VALLEY CLASHES
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On November 4, the Chinese government named 11 bridges along its key Tibet-Xinjiang
highway, parts of which run through Aksai Chin, after four Chinese soldiers killed in the Jun
2020 Galwan Valley clash. Eleven bridges along the G219 national highway, which presently
runs along China’s western borders and initially began as an artery through Aksai Chin linking
Tibet and Xinjiang - its construction in the 1950s on land claimed by India triggered tensions
eventually leading up to the 1962 war - have been named after the four PLA soldiers and their
hometowns in China.
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