China s Ingress Into and Withdrawal From the LAC Remain Inscrutable
There are a host of possible reasons on offer for the People s Liberation Army s aggression, but Beijing s moves remain swathed in obfuscation within a Chinese jalebi which defies unravelling.
Indian and Chinese troops and tanks disengage from the banks of Pangong lake area in Eastern Ladakh where they had been deployed opposite each other for almost ten months now. Photo: PTI/Indian Army handout
Security23/Feb/2021
Chandigarh: With the mutual pullback of Chinese and Indian troops from around the Pangong Tso having been successfully completed, Beijingâs jalebi, first in breaching the disputed Line of Actual Control (LAC) at multiple locations in eastern Ladakh in May 2020, and thereafter in agreeing to a withdrawal over nine months later, remains inscrutable.
India Needs To Look Into LAC Lapses To Be Future-Ready
It is time for the government to consider launching a review into the intelligence and operational lapses resulting in the debilitating faceoff with China that erupted last May.
Indian Army vehicles moving towards the Line of Actual Control (LAC) amid border tension with China, in Leh, Sunday, September 27, 2020. Photo: PTI
Security19/Feb/2021
With the complementary withdrawal of Indian and Chinese troops from the bitterly contested Pangong Tso or lake region along the disputed Line of Actual Control (LAC) in eastern Ladakh underway, it is time for the government to consider launching a review into the intelligence and operational lapses resulting in the debilitating faceoff that erupted last May.
Rahul Bedi
Senior Journalist
With the complementary withdrawal of Indian and Chinese troops from the bitterly contested Pangong Tso or Lake region along the disputed Line of Actual Control (LAC) in eastern Ladakh underway, it is time for the government to consider launching a review into the intelligence and operational lapses resulting in the debilitating faceoff that erupted last May.
And though the People’s Liberation Army’s (PLA) ingress into the adjoining areas still awaits vacation, as does the restoration of the April 2020 military status quo ante along the LAC, a multi-disciplinary commission of inquiry needs establishing, similar to the one which followed the analogous 1999 intrusion by the Pakistan Army into Kargil, to manage the Chinese threat and Beijing’s future duplicity.