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India, China military talks over the new encounter at LAC end

Military talks among India and China at Chushul to determine the new encounter at the Line of Actual Control (LAC) in eastern Ladakh finished late on Monday evening, government sources said. The military talks between the two nations are probably going to proceed on Tuesday.

The brigade commander-level meeting at Chushul occurred after Indian and Chinese soldiers occupied with a new conflict at the southern bank of Pangong lake.

Indian and Chinese soldiers were occupied with the conflict at the southern bank of the Pangong lake where the Chinese acquired near 450 soldiers yet the Indian Army said an attempt to change the status quo was thwarted.

Chinese People’s Liberation Army troops with help of ropes and other climbing gear began moving towards the table-top zone between Black Top and Thakung Heights at Pangong Tso’s south bank, the sources said.

Hearing the disturbance, the Indian Army was alarmed and involved in the action.

Prior, Indian intelligence agencies had cautioned the Indian Army about the Chinese’s PLA intends to change the status quo as usual in different territories along the Line of Actual Control. From that point, clashes ejected between the two sides however things didn’t raise. At the point when Chinese soldiers saw the strength of Indian soldiers, the clashes halted.

According to a source “Both the countries’ troops are still standing in front of each other.” To further reduce the conflict, a brigade commander-level flag meeting started at Chushul and it is still underway.

The Indian Army, in any case, has authoritatively denied any engagement.

In an announcement issued here, the Indian Army said that on the interceding night of August 29 and 30, PLA troops abused the past agreement concurred in military and strategic commitment during the continuous deadlock in eastern Ladakh and completed provocative military developments to change the norm.

“Indian troops pre-empted this PLA activity on the southern bank of Pangong lake, and undertook measures to strengthen our positions and thwart Chinese intentions to unilaterally change facts on the ground,” the force said.

The Indian Army likewise stated that it is focused on keeping up harmony and serenity through discourse, but at the same time is similarly resolved to secure India’s regional respectability.

Nonetheless, China on Monday said its soldiers never went too far from Actual Control.

At Pangong Tso, China had just reinforced its situations between Fingers 5 and 8. The PLA had would not pull back eastwards from the 8-km stretch it involved from Finger 4 to Finger 8 by building scores of new strongholds there since early May.

India has asked China to pull back its soldiers from Pangong Tso. Be that as it may, China has refused to move.

The mountain spikes sticking into the lake are alluded to as ‘Fingers’ in military speech.

The two nations are occupied with the current four-month-long deadlock at the Line of Actual Control in eastern Ladakh. Regardless of a few degrees of exchange, there has not been any discovery and the gridlock proceeds.

On June 15, upwards of 20 India fighters and an obscure number of China soldiers were executed in a brutal conflict in the Galwan Valley.

Chinese hostility began expanding along the Line of Actual Control and all the more especially in Galwan Valley since May 5. The Chinese violated in the territories of Kugrang Nala, Gogra and north bank of Pangong lake on May 17 and May 18.

 

SOURCE: WITH INPUT FROM IANS