The Sino-Indian border confrontation continues. Jin Canrong, deputy dean of the School of International Relations at Renmin University of China and an expert on American issues, said in a recent lecture that the Chinese Army used microwave weapons on the south bank of Pangong Lake in the China-India border area to repel the Indian army and successfully regained the occupied hills, according to analyst Su Mi.
Jin Canrong uploaded a lecture video on his personal Weibo, showing that he mentioned that the Indian army had seized two hills on the south bank of Pangong Lake earlier. These two hills are connecting positions and are very important. After the hills were occupied by the Indian army, the PLA positions were isolated.
Jin Canrong said that at that time the superiors asked the frontline troops to recapture the hills, but they were not allowed to shoot. The frontline troops thought of a “strange trick”: using microwave weapons, “they put a microwave under the mountain, and turn the mountain top into a microwave oven.” He said that the Indian army on the mountain top “all began to vomit and couldn’t stand up after a quarter of an hour, and they ran away”. In the end, the Chinese Army took the hills back. Earlier, analysts also pointed out that Indian troops appeared to have withdrawn from the two hills – “Black Top” and “Magar Hill”.
Microwave weapons are also called radiofrequency weapons or electromagnetic pulse weapons. They are weapons that use high-energy electromagnetic radiation to attack and damage targets. They can be used to kill people or destroy electronic equipment.
In March 2017, an academic paper exposed on the Chinese Internet stated that “China’s microwave weapons will currently conduct a series of tests for aircraft self-defense, space control, suppression of enemy air defense forces, and combat command and control communications. At present, the gigawatt-class high-power microwave air defense suppression weapons have been successfully developed, and experiments to destroy aircraft and other targets have been conducted.”
In fact, microwave weapons have attracted the attention of world public opinion a few years ago.
In 2014, there was news from the US media that a professor at the U.S. Naval War College who specializes in the law of the sea said that Chinese patrol boats might use this kind of hidden and unmarked weapon to deter or assault fishermen from the Philippines, Vietnam and other countries.
It is understood that the United States is currently in a leading position in the field of microwave directed energy weapons research, while the exposure of this system means that China’s technical research in this area has achieved important results.
At the end of 2016, the US Embassy in Cuba reported that some diplomats felt unwell after hearing the “mysterious voice.” In May 2018, the US Consulate General in Guangzhou also reported a similar incident. The New York Times reported in 2018 at the time that experts believed that American diplomats in Cuba might have been attacked by “microwave weapons.”
What’s the source of this information, and what’s the evidence?
Though it looks probable, the way this is claimed makes it sound more like a ‘wishful story’, than anything else.