Beijing:
The police in the eastern Chinese city of Nanjing have detained a common blogger more than social media posts with regards to military casualties of Galwan valley clash with India.
The Nanjing Bureau of Public Security mentioned on Saturday that Qiu Ziming, 38, was charged with “picking quarrels and provoking trouble”, a vague crime that carries a sentence of up to 10 years in prison.
The authorities accused him of demeaning military casualties of the border clash, South China Morning Post reported.
Qiu, a former reporter with the weekly Economic Observer, had 2.5 million followers on China’s Twitter-like platform Weibo when he published two posts on Friday that recommended a commander survived the clashes for the reason that he was the highest-ranking officer there.
He also recommended that more Chinese soldiers may well have been killed in the conflict than these disclosed by the authorities.
On Friday, the Chinese military ended its months-extended silence to say that 4 soldiers – Chen Hongjun, 33, Xiao Siyuan, 24, Wang Zhuoran, 24 and Chen Xiangrong, 18 – had been killed in the conflict in the Galwan Valley in June. Their commanding officer Qi Fabao, 41, was badly wounded.
State media also released footage of the clash displaying Qi walking with open arms towards Indian troops and attempting to quit them.
Earlier in February, Russian news agency TASS had claimed that 45 Chinese soldiers had been killed in the clashes at the Galwan Valley.
In a commentary on Saturday, state news agency Xinhua accused Qiu of “damaging the reputation of heroes, hurting nationalistic feelings and poisoning patriotic hearts” with his sensational posts.
The Chinese Communist Party has extended been accused of suppressing the thought that could undermine the sweeping authority.
In just the previous couple of years, the government has attempted to muzzle critics by producing them disappear without having a trace, ordering people today to physically barge into their homes, or locking up these close to critics as a sort of blackmail.
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