HONG KONG, Sept 13 (SCMP): Five Indian men temporarily detained by the People’s Liberation Army (PLA) for crossing into Chinese territory were released on Saturday amid claims from a Chinese state newspaper that the men were spies.
Nationalist tabloid Global Times described the group as “undercover intelligence officers” and said they entered an area of southeast Tibet administered by Shannan, a prefecture-level city in the region. The article was based on comments made by its editor-in-chief, Hu Xijin, on Weibo, China’s Twitter-like platform.
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