The border dispute that started on May 5, 2020, along the Line of Actual Control (LAC) on the border of China and India, the two most populous countries in the world, cause the existing tensions in Beijing-New Delhi relations to increase again. In particular, on June 15, 2020, a clash took place between soldiers of the two sides in the Galwan river valley in the Ladakh region. The deaths of 20 Indian and 43 Chinese soldiers in the conflict is the first such bloodshed in the last 45 years in the border region.
