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Disquiet on India’s Northern Front

With the 13th round of the India-China military talks failing, Indian and Chinese soldiers will have to suffer another freezing winter in the Himalayas.

Disquiet on India’s Northern Front

An Indian army convoy moves on the Srinagar-Ladakh highway at Gagangeer, northeast of Srinagar, Indian controlled Kashmir, June 18, 2020.

Credit: AP Photo

The 13th round of talks between Indian and Chinese military commanders on October 10, which was to discuss disengagement of troops at Hot Springs, has collapsed in angry recriminations.  The two sides blamed each other for the failure of the talks.

While the Chinese side slammed India for persisting with “unreasonable and unrealistic demands, which added difficulties to the negotiations,” the Indian side claimed that it had “made constructive suggestions” for resolving the dispute at various friction points in eastern Ladakh. Not only were the Chinese “not agreeable” to the Indian suggestion, but also they “could not provide any forward-looking proposals,” the Indian Army said in a statement issued a day after the talks.

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