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A significant number of US senators, cutting across party lines, have expressed their solidarity with India against Chinese aggression along the Line of Actual Control (LAC). The US State Department has also reiterated its commitment to stand with India in the face of Chinese military aggressions as it criticized Beijing for selecting a PLA officer Qi Fabao, who was part of the deadly 2020 Galwan clashes, as one of the torchbearers of the upcoming Winter Olympics 2022.

PLA will give lucky winners a special gift sent by the command - a stone taken from the Galwan Valley, Global Times reported. The PLA theater command opened its official account on Twitter like Sina Weibo on Friday and released a notice that on February 1 it will randomly choose 10 lucky netizens from those who reposted the notice and send them a stone from the Galwan Valley as a present.

President Jinping, who has been serving since 2012 as the General-Secretary of the Chinese Communist Party as well as the Chairman of the Central Military Commission, the country's highest defence organisation , issued the new mobilisation order for 2022 which has laid down the principles and fundamentals of training and exercises of the armed forces.