Defence minister Rajnath Singh (PTI)
NEW DELHI: India and China are talking through diplomatic and military channels to resolve the ongoing troop confrontation in eastern Ladakh, said defence minister Rajnath Singh, adding even the major 73-day Doklam face-off in 2017 had also been defused through bilateral dialogue.
But the minister, in an interview to a television channel, deflected a question on whether Chinese troops had intruded deep into Indian territory across the line of actual control (LAC) in eastern Ladakh. “There are perceptional differences with China over the LAC,” he said.
Singh’s remarks are the first by a senior minister since violent clashes between rival troops on May 5-6 after People’s Liberation Army (PLA) soldiers intruded around 1-3 km into what India