New Delhi: In a development that casts doubts on China’s intentions and seriousness on defusing tension of the border, its state-run media on Sunday released a video showing hundreds of Chinese soldiers engaging in an exercise near the Indo-China border.
It comes a day after top India and China military commanders held talks yesterday, to defuse the ongoing conflict at the border. Before this, several round of talks already took place between the two sides on military as well as diplomatic level.
But, this deliberate attempt to show People’s Liberation Army (PLA) mobilization near the border, at a time of stretched conflict with India, exposes its ‘dubious’ face.
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Global Times, a state-run media outlet posted a video on Twitter and wrote, “Several thousand soldiers with a Chinese PLA Air Force airborne brigade took just a few hours to maneuver from Central China’s Hubei Province to northwestern, high-altitude region amid China-India border tensions.”
Several thousand soldiers with a Chinese PLA Air Force airborne brigade took just a few hours to maneuver from Central China’s Hubei Province to northwestern, high-altitude region amid China-India border tensions. https://t.co/dRuaTAMIt0 pic.twitter.com/CtRJRk13IO
— Global Times (@globaltimesnews) June 7, 2020
It went further to state, “Several hundred pieces of military equipment including armored vehicles and huge batches of supplies were also involved in the operation, which ended successfully in just a few hours.”
Yesterday, the top level military commanders from both sides met and deliberated on ways to end the ongoing stand-off and bring normalcy at the border.
As per reports, India has sought restoration of status quo in Pangong Tso as it was before the military buildup in April of this year while China has demanded that India stops any road construction activity in the region.
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India-China stand-off at the Line of Actual Control (LAC) in Ladakh has even left the world powers worried, with US President offering to mediate.
While speaking to press last month, Donald Trump said, “I can tell you; I did speak to Prime Minister Modi. He is not in a good mood about what is going on with China.”
However, India declined Trump’s request for mediation, saying that the dispute would be resolved through established channels and there wasn’t any need for third-party intervention.
