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China Yet To Explain Changed Stance, Massing Of Troops: Jaishankar

(This was originally posted in Hindustan Times by Kanishka Sarkar)

Minister of external affairs S Jaishankar on Thursday said that the ties between India and China are under exceptional stress following the tension in the eastern Ladakh region along the Line of Actual Control (LAC). “Far from mitigating differences, events of 2020 have actually put our ties under exceptional stress,” he said.

While speaking at the 13th All India Conference of China Studies, the foreign minister said India yet to receive credible explanation for change in China’s stance and massing of troops in border areas.

His comments come in the backdrop of the standoff between the Indian Army and China’s People’s Liberation Army (PLA) along the LAC for over eight months now. The soldiers of both the Indian army and PLA are deployed eyeball-to-eyeball at friction points on the contested border. As many as nine rounds of corp-commander level talks between the two sides have failed to bring a solution to the impasse.

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Amid the ongoing standoff in Ladakh, India foiled an attempt by the Chinese to intrude across the border at Naku La in North Sikkim last week, as per sources. The Indian Army said the ‘minor face-off’ was resolved between the two sides by officers.

Sources said Chinese soldiers tried to cross the border last week but were challenged by Indian soldiers in Naku La in North Sikkim, which resulted in a violent clash. The violent clash resulted in injuries on both sides, sources added. While around 20 Chinese soldiers were injured in the clash at Naku La in Sikkim, on the Indian side, four Indian Army soldiers reportedly sustained injuries.

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Kartik Sud

I am working as a News Author With the DefenceXP network, Observing LOC and LAC

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