World News for Students of English

25-06-2020 07:00

On Monday, Indian and Chinese troops clashed in a violent brawl on a desolate border road. Twenty Indian soldiers were killed, and unknown Chinese deaths occurred as soldiers fought with rocks and bamboo sticks.

India and China are geopolitical enemies and both are nuclear armed. The countries have faced generational tensions over a 2,100-mile region near India’s Galwan Valley. They fought a war in 1962, and they reached a tense agreement on the border line.

The problem is that neither India nor China is willing to surrender claims to the region. Officials say that neither country wants a war; however, this clash will harden the relationship between them. Two years ago, both countries’ leaders agreed to maintain peace on the border.

Although no shots were fired on Monday, it was the worst clash in 40 years.

Difficult words: brawl (a rough or violent fight), desolate (with few people around, far away from cities), geopolitical (related to countries and governments across the world), surrender (to give up, to stop trying to control something).

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