LOL! The PLA soldiers are wearing full PPE suits when engaging with Indian soldiers in a gift exchange. Totally understandable. You don't want to be catching Covid-19 out there. But its amusing to see soldiers dressed up in full medical PPE in the middle of nowhere.There was a New Year's gift exchange between Chinese and Indian troops along the border....
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I remembered watching documentary footages of US soldiers training to put on NBC suits during the first Gulf War. Out of fear of an Iraqi chemical attack. So when I see images of soldiers wearing PPE coveralls, it reminded me of that Gulf War WMD hysteria. So imagine decades into the future, with Covid-19 a distant memory. Some kid looking at this photo could imagine that India and China had just fought a WMD war, got fatigued, and finally made peace with a gift exchange. LOL!