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India, China commanders again talk to end border standoff
Published in Ahram Online on 21 - 09 - 2020

Senior Indian and Chinese military commanders are holding talks Monday to find ways to resolve a monthslong tense standoff between the rival soldiers along their disputed mountain border in mountainous Ladakh region.
Details of the talks, which are happening on the Chinese side in Moldo area facing Indian-controlled Ladakh region, weren't immediately disclosed. A senior Indian foreign ministry official was also participating in the meeting, said an Indian official, speaking on condition of anonymity in line with government regulations.
Despite several rounds of talks at military, diplomatic and political levels, including negotiations between foreign and defense ministers of the two countries in Moscow this month, the border tensions have persisted.
Both India and China have provided little information, but media in the two countries have given extensive coverage to the escalating tensions which have dramatically changed their bilateral relations.
The standoff in Ladakh escalated in June to their deadliest clash in decades _ a clash on a high ridge between soldiers using clubs, stones and their fists. Twenty Indian soldiers were killed. China is believed to have also suffered casualties, but has not given any details.
In recent weeks, the Asian giants have accused each other of sending soldiers into the other's territory and firing warning shots for the first time in 45 years, raising the specter of full-scale military conflict.
Relations between the two countries have often been strained, partly due to their undemarcated border.
They fought a border war in 1962 that spilled into Ladakh and ended in an uneasy truce. Since then, troops have guarded the undefined border areas stretching from Ladakh to India's northeastern Arunachal Pradesh state, occasionally brawling. They have agreed not to attack each other with firearms.
Both have accused each other of instigating the violence and pledged to safeguard their territory.


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