NEW DELHI: India made a renewed push for China to complete troop disengagement at Pangong Tso and Gogra areas as well as pullback from the Depsang Plains in eastern Ladakh during top-level military talks between the two countries on Sunday.
There was no official word on the outcome of the fifth round of talks between 14 Corps commander Lt-General Harinder Singh and South Xinjiang Military District chief Major General Liu Lin, which began after 11am and continued till late in the night on the Chinese of the Chushul-Moldo border personnel meeting point.
But the talks were held amid the continuing Chinese refusal to even disengage fully on the north bank of Pangong Tso as well as Patrolling Point (PP)-17A at Gogra, let alone begin de-escalation and eventual de-induction of the over 30,000 troops each amassed by both sides along the Line of Actual Control (LAC) in ea