NEW DELHI: Amidst Chinese troops showing no signs of pulling back from Pangong Tso and Depsang Plains in eastern Ladakh, while also continuing to increase deployments along the Line of Actual Control right till Arunachal Pradesh, the next round of corps commander-level talks will now be held on Sunday.
India earlier “did not insist” on holding the fifth round of talks between 14 Corps commander Lt General Harinder Singh and South Xinjiang Military District chief Major General Liu Lin on July 30, as was initially proposed, in view of China’s “continuing intransigence” on the ground.
But with China calling for the meeting late on Saturday evening, it will now be held on the Chinese side of the Chushul-Moldo side of the border personnel meeting (BPM) point on Sunday afternoon.
This comes after India’s high-powered China Study Group held a meeting this week to fine-tune the strategy. Officials say there could be two reasons for the People’s Liberation Army (PLA) to drag its feet on troop disengagement at Pangong Tso and Patrolling Point (PP)-17A at Gogra.
The PLA,