Border transgressions and incursions are well documented in all three sectors of the 3,488 km long border that India officially shares with China. However, far more sinister military aggression has been underway in Pakistan-Occupied Jammu and Kashmir (PoK), Pardafas reported.
The 27th Meeting of the Working Mechanism for Consultation and Coordination on India-China Border Affairs (WMCC) was held on Wednesday in New Delhi, the Ministry of External Affairs said in a statement.
"A meeting of Indian Army and Chinese Army officials at the Major General level was held at the Daulat Beg Oldie sector along the LAC in Ladakh today. The two sides discussed ways of resolving the ongoing stand-off between two sides and were routine in nature," Defence sources told ANI here.
A strained Indo-Chinese relationship is witnessing a further plunge, courtesy of China's repeated illegal and provocative campaigns to alter the status quo along the Line of Actual Control, the de facto border between the two nuclear-armed countries.
Rekha Singh, wife of Naik Deepak Singh who was killed in the clash in 2020 and was awarded Vir Chakra (Posthumous), has been commissioned into the Indian Army as a Lieutenant and has been posted to a frontline base along the Line of Actual Control (LAC) in eastern Ladakh.
It's rare for top Himalayan Buddhist leaders to come together in such big numbers in the border state and the meeting on Monday is being seen as a clear and unambiguous message to China after its renaming attempt.
The latest figures show that China's overall share of global arms exports dropped from 6.3 per cent to 5.2 per cent in the last 10 years. While China seems to be preparing for a potential invasion of Taiwan, the possibility of it using its defence industrial base to support Russia in Ukraine
"We have serious a dispute with China and after 2020, there is tension on the border," Jaishankar said, adding, "Our relationship with China is not normal and it could not be normal if there is a large military force at the Line of Actual Control."
Chief of Army Staff General Manoj Pande on Monday said that China's transgressions along the Line of Actual Control (LAC) remain to be a "potential trigger" for escalation and that the Indian Army is firm' and resolute in dealing with any contingency on the border.
Anshul Gupta, General Manager of Northeast Frontier Railway told ANI that the NF Railway has already sent the final location survey report to a higher authority.
Lt. General R.P. Kalita, General Officer Commanding-in-Chief (GOC-in-C), Eastern Command called on the Governor of Arunachal Pradesh, Lt. General K.T. Parnaik (Retd.) on Friday, discussing security and welfare-related issues, stated an official release.
United States Senators Bill Hagerty and Jeff Merkley have introduced a bipartisan Senate resolution reaffirming the United States' recognition of Arunachal Pradesh as an integral part of India and condemned China's military aggression to change the status quo along the Line of Actual Cont