{"id":33585,"date":"2022-12-01T11:42:08","date_gmt":"2022-12-01T06:12:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=33585"},"modified":"2025-04-19T23:43:01","modified_gmt":"2025-04-19T18:13:01","slug":"india-reply-to-china-no-3rd-party-gets-veto-on-our-military-exercise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/india-reply-to-china-no-3rd-party-gets-veto-on-our-military-exercise\/","title":{"rendered":"India reply to China: &#8216;No 3rd party gets veto on our military exercise&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><strong>What\u2019s in today\u2019s article?<\/strong><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Sino-Indian bilateral agreements for border peace<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Yudh Abhyas<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>News Summary<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>\u00a0<\/h2>\n<h2><strong>Why in News?<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>India hit out at China for claiming that the ongoing India-US \u2018Yudh Abhyas\u2019 military exercise in Uttarakhand violates Sino-Indian bilateral agreements for border peace.<\/li>\n<li>It asked Beijing to reflect on its own breach of the pacts in the form of Chinese transgressions in eastern Ladakh.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2><strong>Sino-Indian bilateral agreements for border peace<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>The <strong>1993 agreement between India and China<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li><u>The 1993 agreement deals with maintaining peace and tranquility<\/u> along the LAC (line of actual control).<\/li>\n<li>It declared: &#8220;Neither side shall use or threaten to use force against the other by any means. No activities of either side shall overstep the LAC.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>It also stated, &#8220;in case personnel of one side cross the line of actual control, upon being cautioned by the other side, they shall immediately pull back to their own side of the LAC.&#8221;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>1996 agreement on border disputes and maintenance of peace<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li><u>The 1996 pact was about confidence building measures<\/u> in the military field along the LAC with China in the &#8216;India-China Border Areas&#8217;.<\/li>\n<li>As per article VI of the Agreement, the two countries are not to open fire within two kilometers from the LAC<\/li>\n<li>This had been stipulated to prevent &#8220;dangerous military activities&#8221; and does not apply to routine firing activities in small arms firing ranges.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2><strong>What is Yudh Abhyas Exercise?<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Exercise Yudh Abhyas is conducted annually between India and USA with the aim of exchanging best practices, Tactics, Techniques and Procedures between the Armies of the two nations.<\/li>\n<li>India and US are conducting the 18th edition of this joint military training exercise in Auli, Uttarakhand.\n<ul>\n<li>The previous edition of the exercise was conducted at Joint Base Elmendorf Richardson, Alaska (USA) in October 2021.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>The exercise will help both countries to encounter China by endorsing each other.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2><strong>News Summary<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Recently, India said it does not give a veto to third countries on matters such as its joint military exercises with any country.<\/li>\n<li>This came in a sharp response to China\u2019s objections to the ongoing joint India-US military exercise in Uttarakhand\u2019s Auli.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/lh5.googleusercontent.com\/qMmKpIhcpYEKNr9ATfJRABlMCTZnZZv9wImDtCst4A3nOyisCOP970Kq5S3jfElP35XYdgaqZRf-akRAOCUOqu43zKtnXS2U1qZwlrnvcosl19a4BrHx32OWTUXrt-Zi3PPxq6REnhv-otJ5IpPfnw\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Image Caption: Reaction to ongoing Yudh Abhyas Exercise<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>China sees the exercise near the Line of Actual Control (LAC) also as an effort by US to meddle in India-China border affairs.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2><strong>What is India\u2019s response to China?<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>India exercises with whomever it chooses to and it does not give a veto to third countries on these issues. The exercise has nothing to do with the bilateral agreements.<\/li>\n<li>India emphasized that the Chinese side needs to reflect and think about its own breach of the agreements of 1993 and 1996.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3><strong>Q1) What is the difference between LAC and LOC?<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>LOC or Line of Control\u00a0 denotes clearly demarcated military boundary separating parts of Indian UT i.e. Jammu &amp; Kashmir; controlled by India and illegally occupied by Pakistan.\u00a0 LAC stands for Line of Actual Control which separates Indian-controlled territory from Chinese-controlled territory.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3><strong>Q2)\u00a0<\/strong><strong>What is McMahon, Durand, and Radcliffe Line?<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>The McMahon line: The boundary line between India and China. The Durand Line: The boundary that once separated British India from Afghanistan. The Radcliff Line: The boundary drawn between India and Pakistan.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Exercise Yudh Abhyas does not violate Sino-Indian bilateral agreements or meddle in India-China relations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":33586,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-33585","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-mains-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33585","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33585"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33585\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33586"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33585"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33585"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33585"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}