JAPAN TIMES | Published December 15, 2024
Recent events reveal India’s success in securing concessions from China.
Ending a four-year hiatus, Chinese leader Xi Jinping and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi resumed a structured dialogue at the BRICS Summit in Kazan, Russia, in October — after having held only unscheduled interactions since the 2020 Galwan Valley incident in which the Chinese and Indian armies clashed over the disputed border that divides them.
This seems to have been an opportune moment for the Chinese leadership to disengage its forces from territorial friction points and for India to resume border patrols, with both returning to pre-Galwan Valley incident positions.
Several strategic factors put pressure on China to change its stance. These included the holding of the BRICS summit with the possibility that Xi and Modi would not agree on some of the key points, the prospect that the American election would usher in a new administration with an unpredictable foreign policy and growing challenges in the Indo-Pacific.
In Kazan, Xi even stressed that India and China should work together as partners and not competitors and see the relationship as an opportunity for development, rather than a threat.
This contrasts sharply with Beijing’s assertive stance in the South China Sea, where it continues to reiterate its claim over Taiwan and adopt an aggressive posture toward the Philippines and other states. Notably, Xi has repeatedly urged China’s People’s Liberation Army (PLA) to prepare for war.
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SOURCE: www.japantimes.co.jp
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INDIA.COM | Published December 15, 2024
The perseverance of 50,000 soldiers of the Indian Army in eastern Ladakh has now started yielding results. Since the Galwan violence in the year 2020, these brave soldiers of the Indian Army have been holding the ground against China even in the severe winter.
This courage of the Indian Army has started yielding results and China has to withdraw its troops in the Depsang sector. Latest satellite images have revealed that after the agreement between India and China, the Chinese army has destroyed 3 of its posts in the Y junction of Depsang sector.
The Chinese army has retreated about 20 km. With this, Indian soldiers have now started patrolling this area easily. China has now shifted its military posts to another location.
Earlier, China had stopped Indian troops from patrolling the area and strengthened the military infrastructure. The new military posts that China has built are far from the disputed area. Not only this, these military posts of PLA are short-term in nature. The Chinese army has moved back about 20 km from the earlier position.
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SOURCE: www.india.com
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