The 2020 China-India dispute is an ongoing military standoff between China and India. Since 5 May 2020, Chinese and Indian troops were reported to have taken aggressive action, skirmishes and skirmishes at locations along the Sino-Indian border, resulting in the deaths and deaths of twenty Indian soldiers (including one officer) and at least Forty-three Chinese soldiers sustained injuries in hand-to-hand combat on 16 June 2020, and several other skirmishes, with multiple injuries on both sides.

Accidents have occurred near Pangong Lake in Ladakh and Nathu La Pass in Sikkim. In addition, places in eastern Ladakh are confronted with the Line of Actual Control (LAC), which remains from the 1962 Sino-Indian War. The most recent of them is in the Galvan River Valley, where Chinese forces objected to Indian road construction within Indian territory.