India and china are both accusing the other soldiers of firing shots in a new confrontation along their disputed himalayan border china says indian troops crossed the line of actual control in the Western Region on monday and opened fire and its soldiers took what it called Counter Measures but indias military has laid the blame with china accusing it of what it called provocative measures to escalate tensions both sides usually avoid using firearms in the area katrina you has more on the reaction from beijing. Now china has called this a serious provocation and violation of the border agreement we know that things between these 2 sides have been tense for some years but if this is true this will be one of the 1st times firearms have been involved in about 40 years that had been agreement to keep firearms out of it but we do know that things have been escalating with both sides building up troops for the past 2 months staring at times at each other eyeball to eyeball the longest disput