New Delhi: China has yet again upped the propaganda over its deadliest border clash in four decades with India by naming 11 bridges on the Tibet-Xinjiang highway after Chinese soldiers who died in the June 2020 hand-to-hand clash between Indian and Chinese troops in Ladakh’s Galwan Valley.The Global Times reported on Friday that the step was “a way of commemorating those heroes who have become the epitome of Chinese people’s ever-growing patriotic sentiment”.Indian and Chinese troops had been engaged in a stand-off at multiple points in eastern Ladakh since April-May 2020. However, the clash in June propelled the stand-off into public visibility and led to high-level political and military talks between the two sides to de-escalate tensions. India immediately announced that it had lost 20 soldiers. It took China more than eight months to publicly admit that four Chinese soldiers had died in the clash. It was the highest fatality count recorded at the border since 1967.The talks between the two sides have led to the creation of buffer zones and the withdrawal of troops at five friction points over the last two years. However, there has been no movement in two highly strategic areas for India – Demchok and Depsang.While calling for the normalisation of ties, China has shown no signs of compromise on these two points and has indicated that the stand-off is nearly over. However, India has noted that the two sides could only move on once the issues at the border are resolved.Meanwhile, China has steadily highlighted Galwan ‘heroes’ during national events.PLA Galwan commander Qi Fabao was one of the torchbearers of the Olympic flame at the Winter Olympics in Beijing in February 2022. India had described the decision to pick Qi as one of the torchbearers as “regrettable” and announced that its ambassador would not attend the opening and closing ceremonies.During the Communist Party of China’s 20th National Congress last month, Qi Fabao was invited as one of the delegates to the conference, which acquired significance as it rubber-stamped President Xi Jinping’s unprecedented third term.Further, clips of the Galwan clash were played at the Great Hall of the people at the opening of the Congress to showcase the CPC’s achievements.Besides, three Western Theatre Command generals, who were in charge when the Chinese PLA was confronting the Indian army on the border, were promoted at the Congress to significant positions in the Central Military Commission.According to Global Times, the bridges of the strategic highway are being named after the four soldiers, Chen Hongjun, Chen Xiangrong, Xiao Siyuan, and Wang Zhuoran – and their home towns.The state-run Chinese tabloid also pointed out that Qi Fabao and the four Chinese soldiers were also selected as “candidates for the eighth national campaign of China’s ethical role models”.