India-China to hold higher military-level talks

According to report, Senior military commanders from both India and China areto hold talks today to discuss about the next level of disengagement by the Chinese side along the Line of Actual Control (LAC) in Ladakh sector.

This major general level meeting, comes after the fifth round of meeting between commander ranked officers on August 2 in the Daulat Beg Oldi area on the Chinese side of LAC.

Now this last round of negotiations will held at Moldo on the Chinese side of the LAC. Now this meeting to entered in critical stage due to serious differences between the two armies in the Finger Area near Pangong Tso.

It also came amidst the Chinese People’s Liberation Army reluctance to vacate positions held by it in what New Delhi claims to be Indian territory.

According to Hindustan Times , the August 2 military negotiations had come three days after Chinese ambassador Sun Weidong said his country’s traditional boundary line on the northern bank of the Pangong Lake was in accordance with the LAC and there was no case of Beijing expanding its territorial claim.

''The ambassador’s contention was a clear indication of the Chinese hard line on its claims in the Finger area'', said a second official.

The aim of the major general level talks is to reduce tensions in the Depsang region where Indian and Chinese troops are said to be ranged against each other along with a range of military hardware — artillery guns and tanks.

Till date in the military meeting, the focus was on 4 friction points Patrol Points 14, 15 and 17A along with Pangong Lake. Meanwhile there has been a stalemate at Pangong Lake as China has come up with new fortifications between Finger 5 and 8 of the lake, there has been also considerable disengagement at other places.