BEIJING: The frontline troops of China and India have “completed” disengagement at most locations of their border, a senior Chinese official said on Tuesday, adding the situation on the ground is easing.
However, Indian government sources in New Delhi said this statement is not correct.
Earlier, Chinese foreign ministry spokesman Wang Wenbin had made the claim at a briefing in Beijing when he was asked whether the border troops from India and China have completed the disengagement from Galwan, Gogra and Hot Spring areas in eastern Ladakh. The reference to Pangong Tso, a major friction point, was conspicuously absent in the question asked by a reporter from China’s official media.
During the briefing, the spokesman noted that China and India have recently conducted “intensive communication through military and diplomatic channels.”
“Now the frontline border