{"id":22541,"date":"2020-09-08T15:23:01","date_gmt":"2020-09-08T06:23:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/sep\/08\/china-india-border-soldiers-pangong-lake"},"modified":"2020-09-08T19:45:59","modified_gmt":"2020-09-08T10:45:59","slug":"china-and-india-accuse-each-other-of-opening-fire-as-border-tensions-rise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=22541","title":{"rendered":"China and India accuse each other of opening fire as border tensions rise"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nuclear-armed neighbours swap accusations after clash in disputed Himalayan region<\/p>\n<p>Tensions have escalated between Indian and Chinese forces along their disputed Himalayan border after accusations that shots were fired for the first time in 45 years.<\/p>\n<p>China released a statement late on Monday night claiming Indian soldiers had crossed over the contested border in Ladakh, known as the line of actual control (LAC), and \u201copened fire to threaten the Chinese border defence patrol officers\u201d.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/sep\/08\/china-india-border-soldiers-pangong-lake\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nuclear-armed neighbours swap accusations after clash in disputed Himalayan regionTensions have escalated between Indian and Chinese forces along their disputed Himalayan border after accusations that shots were fired for the first time in 45 years.Chi&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,50,62,61,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22541","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-india","category-south-and-central-asia","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22541","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22541"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22541\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22553,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22541\/revisions\/22553"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22541"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22541"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22541"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}