India China LAC

The two sides have agreed on patrolling arrangements along their disputed border in the Himalayas.

Despite pressure from industry groups to explore openings for trade and investment with China, the Indian security establishment is unlikely to alter the status quo soon.

Is the list aimed at warning India against hosting an upcoming air combat exercise with the U.S., where Japan will participate as an observer?

Far from giving a “fitting reply” to the PLA’s advance into Indian-controlled territory, the Modi government’s response has been timid.

There is no indication whether a breakthrough in the impasse was achieved but the meeting is expected to reduce tensions.

The highway will enable the People’s Liberation Army to mobilize troops and military equipment faster overland to the Line of Actual Control.

If a new hydropower project at the Brahmaputra’s Great Bend comes about, northeastern India will have to go to sleep with the possibility of breach of mammoth sized water reservoirs over its head at any time.

“But just because the topography of the Aksai Chin doesn’t afford a neat natural line to use as a border, it doesn’t mean that both sides can’t come up with a borderline that can be respected.”

Recorded Future, a private intelligence firm, claims that a Chinese state-backed entity systematically targeted multiple load dispatch points to strategic ends.

If the PLA statement and media reports hold, the disengagement would mark a first, crucial step toward ending the nine-month standoff in Ladakh.