Indo-China LT Gen level meet to discuss tension

News Desk

Lt Gen level officials will from both ends of Indo-China border on June 6 to discuss the brewing border tension between two most populous nations of the world.

The meet along the Line of Actual Control in Eastern Ladakh, comes after a series of ongoing diplomatic discussions between the two countries and is said to be centred around China’s massive military buildup along the LAC.

India will be led by Lt. Gen. Harinder Singh, corps commander of the Leh-based XIV Corps. Indian Army sources have said that the Leh-based 14 Corps Commander Lt Gen Harinder Singh is scheduled to hold talks with his Chinese counterpart to resolve the matter.

The last level of diplomatic talks was held between divisional commanders of India and China on Tuesday morning. There have been more than 10 round of talks held already between the two sides. On Tuesday also, officers from both sides held talks to resolve the crisis.

Sources say there has not been not much headway during these diplomatic talks as both sides continue to hold ground position. The People’s Liberation Army has brought in more than 5,000 troops along the Eastern Ladakh sector and in some areas, they are said to be pushing for deeper incursions close to the Indian territory. The Chinese have also brought in heavy vehicles with artillery guns and infantry combat vehicles.

Defense minister Rajnath Singh tweeted, “India is in talks with China. We have a mechanism to solve the problem and we are working as per that mechanism.”

Border tensions between the two countries have existed for over seven decades. The two countries even fought a war over the hilly state of Arunachal Pradesh in 1962, called the Sino-Indian War. In 2017, both the armies were locked in a 73-day stand-off in the disputed Doklam plateau near Sikkim, regarding the building of a road by the Chinese.

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As part of Operation Juniper, about 270 Indian troops armed with weapons and two bulldozers crossed the Sikkim border into Doklam to stop the Chinese troops from constructing the road.
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Chinese President Xi Jinping held their first informal summit in April 2018 in the Chinese city of Wuhan, months after the Doklam standoff.