In the Demchok area of eastern Ladakh, Indian forces have been deployed for patrolling after a disengagement plan with the Chinese sides, as the Indian Army sources affirmed on Friday.
This move has been made simultaneously, as both countries are striving to stop the border issues in both areas. Officers said that patrolling is due to commence soon along the Depsang region, another sensitive area of confrontation between India and China.
An official from the Indian Army said earlier this week that the troops of both sides have finally disengaged from the two locations and are now ready to resume patrolling.
This declaration was followed by swapping candies and sweets between actualities of both India and China at several border points of LAC on Diwali to exhume the feeling of friendship, albeit facing hostility.
In this regard, Defence Minister Rajnath Singh said that the disengagement process close to the LAC is ‘almost done’, which means de-escalation in the region has been achieved to a certain extent. LAC is, in effect, the line that divides the China or India-controlled areas and the Indian-administered Ladakh in the west to the Arunachal Pradesh in the east. Most of the political crises it indicated were rooted in the historic hostility starting with the Sino-Indian war in 1962.
The current standoff escalated in June 2020 after hand-to-hand fighting in the Galwan Valley that left 20 Indian soldiers and an unspecified number of Chinese soldiers. This incident culminated in the protraction of military build-up, whereby both nations mobilised tens of thousands of soldiers and heavy equipment in the area.
Both India and China agreed on border management in October this year, and recently, Prime Minister Narendra Modi met President Xi Jinping at the BRICS meeting held in Russia. The treaty demanded demilitarisation of the remaining two spots where the conflict between the two nations’ forces was most acute.
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