Overview

• Republican Senator Bill Hagerty said China used an electromagnetic weapon to "literally melt Indian soldiers" during a border confrontation.
• He tied the allegation to the 2020 Galwan Valley standoff along the Line of Actual Control without explicitly naming the clash.
• Reporters note there is no independent evidence or public military record substantiating the "literally melt" description, and India’s foreign ministry has not commented.
• The remarks come shortly after Prime Minister Narendra Modi met President Xi Jinping at the SCO summit in Tianjin, a meeting that prompted unease in Washington.
• Chinese state media in 2020 described non‑lethal "microwave" measures to push Indian troops from high ground, but those accounts were never officially confirmed.