{"id":33673,"date":"2022-12-22T05:45:57","date_gmt":"2022-12-22T00:15:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=33673"},"modified":"2025-04-20T00:32:56","modified_gmt":"2025-04-19T19:02:56","slug":"india-china-agree-on-stability-along-lac-in-ladakh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/india-china-agree-on-stability-along-lac-in-ladakh\/","title":{"rendered":"India &#038; China agree on stability along LAC in Ladakh"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><strong>Why in News?<\/strong><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Recently, the 17th round of the corps-commander-level meeting was held at the Chushul-Moldo border meeting point on the Chinese side.<\/li>\n<li>The meeting saw India pressing China for early and complete disengagement at the remaining friction points, including in Demchok and Depsang.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2><strong>What\u2019s in Today\u2019s Article:<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Previous rounds of talks (background, corps commander level talks, outcome of the previous rounds)<\/li>\n<li>News summary<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2><strong>Background of Indian and China Clash<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/lh5.googleusercontent.com\/iprM459k03_QVCLtc0nRi2Z7igd7pPpDb5Zs1p78-obl5NJUPmtHxkg4ZGQqxKAV2MSxl5AAeO9QY6GuKC4xvEttbmCE9qbUuHlc5fXJJ_i_1V69FYsTEu8S3eEuacF6vOABXyBmE0EJbrcOAqTJuw\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Image Caption: Location of Indian and Chinese troops clash<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>In May 2020, Indian and Chinese troops clashed at various points along the Line of Actual Control (LAC).<\/li>\n<li>These points included:\n<ul>\n<li>Pangong Tso, Galwan Nalah and Demchok in Ladakh and at Naku La (a mountain pass at an altitude of over 5000 metres) in Sikkim.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Later, a violent clash at Galwan Valley started between Indian troops and soldiers of the People&#8217;s Liberation Army (PLA) on the night of June 15, 2020.\n<ul>\n<li>It was the first deadly clash between India and China in at least 45 years. 20 Indian soldiers lost their lives.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>After this incident, both sides deployed a large number of troops in the area along with heavy weaponry.\n<ul>\n<li>The infrastructure build-up has also been very heavy and the standoff between the two forces is continuing.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2><strong>The Corps Commander level talks<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>India and China have been holding the talks on the Line of Actual Control (LAC) in Eastern Ladakh area to resolve the standoff.\n<ul>\n<li>Earlier to the current talk, the 16 round of Corps Commander-level talks had been held between the two countries.\n<ul>\n<li>The 16<sup>th<\/sup> round took place in July 2022.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2><strong>Outcomes of the previous rounds of talks<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Troops were disengaged on the north and south banks of Pangong Tso and Gogra Post.\n<ul>\n<li>However, at Hot Springs they continue to face each other.\n<ul>\n<li>China had refused to complete the stalled troop disengagement at the Patrolling Point (PP) \u2013 15 in the Hot Springs-Gogra-Kongka La area.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>The Chinese have also been preventing Indian troops from accessing five traditional patrolling points on the Depsang Plains.\n<ul>\n<li>These five traditional patrolling are \u2014PP10, PP11, PP11A, PP12 and PP13.<\/li>\n<li>Depsang plains are not far from the strategic Indian outpost at Daulat Beg Oldie near the Karakoram Pass in the north.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>The no-patrol buffer zones have been created after disengagement at\n<ul>\n<li>PP-14 in Galwan Valley,<\/li>\n<li>PP-17A near Gogra<\/li>\n<li>Pangong Tso\n<ul>\n<li>However, these zones have largely come up in what India claims to be its territory.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2><strong>News Summary<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Military commanders from India &amp; China held a fresh round of high-level talks in order to resolve the remaining issues along the Line of Actual Control in eastern Ladakh.<\/li>\n<li>During the meeting, India pressed China for early and complete disengagement at the remaining friction points, including in Demchok and Depsang.\n<ul>\n<li>India maintained that disengagement, followed by de-escalation, is essential for bilateral ties to return to normal.<\/li>\n<li>China, however, believes the border situation in eastern Ladakh is no longer as serious as it was in 2020, when the military stand-off started, and wants to resume bilateral exchanges.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>However, there was no sign of any breakthrough in the talks.<\/li>\n<li>In a joint statement, issued after the meeting, they agreed to maintain security and stability in the western sector.<\/li>\n<li>They also decided to maintain dialogue for a mutually acceptable resolution of the remaining issues at the earliest.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3><strong>Q1) Where is Galwan Valley located?<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>The Galwan valley is strategically located between Ladakh in the west and Aksai Chin in the east. At its western end are the Shyok river and the Darbuk-Shyok-Daulet Beg Oldie (DSDBO) road. Its eastern mouth lies not far from China\u2019s vital Xinjiang Tibet road, now called the G219 highway.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3><strong>Q2) Why is Pangong Tso lake salty?<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>Pangong Lake, situated at a height of almost 4,350m, is the world&#8217;s highest saltwater lake. The rocks give out the ocean\u2019s salts. As a result, lakes that do not drain into the sea become salty because the salt has nowhere to go. Pangong is one such river.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>Source:\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/news\/national\/india-china-agree-to-maintain-stability-on-ground-avoid-any-new-incidents-in-eastern-ladakh\/article34290535.ece\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">India, China agree to maintain stability on ground<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Recently, at the Chushul-Moldo border meeting India &#038; China agree on stability along LAC in Ladakh.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":33674,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-33673","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\/33673","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=33673"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33673\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33674"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33673"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33673"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33673"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}