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Tension has one again erupted on the Indo-China border. India says it has foiled Chinese bid to change the status quo on their disputed border. China was in denial mode.
A PIB status update from the army over the issue said, “On the Night of 29/30 August, PLA troops violated the previous consensus arrived at during military and diplomatic engagements during the ongoing standoff in Eastern Ladakh and carried out provocative military movements to change the status quo.”
It further said, “Indian troops pre-empted this PLA activity on the Southern Bank of Pangong Tso Lake, undertook measures to strengthen our positions and thwart Chinese intentions to unilaterally change facts on ground. The Indian Army is committed to maintaining peace and tranquility through dialogue, but is also equally determined to protect its territorial integrity. A Brigade Commander level Flag Meeting is in progress at Chushul to resolve the issues.”
China’s foreign ministry denied its troops crossed the LAC and added that the two sides are communicating regarding conditions on the ground. Tensions between India and China again have flared up again, with the nuclear-armed countries accusing each other of trying to seize territory across their disputed Himalayan border.
Global Times, the China-state affiliated media reported the China has accused India of crossing border and has opposed strongly the act asking to withdraw the troops. Army officials from the two sides were meeting to resolve the latest border dispute that comes more than two months after 20 Indian soldiers were killed in fighting that broke out between the two sides in Ladakh’s Galwan Valley.
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Talks have been going on between the two sides since May to resolve these escalating tensions, but despite these talks going on, there was a very violent clash on June 15, where Indian and Chinese were reportedly killed.
For months, troops have been locked in a face-off in the western Himalayas, where each side accuses the other of violating their nearly 3,500km-long (2,000-mile) border, most of which remains undemarcated.
The recent border tensions are the most serious in more than half a century as both the sides have been accusing each other of instigating the violence, and both sides pledged to safeguard their territory.
The face-off began at three different points in April, but by June it escalated and spread to two other locations towards the north in Depsang and Galwan Valley.
