After a military meeting between India and China on the border dispute yesterday, Delhi said in a statement on Sunday that the two countries wanted a "peaceful solution" to the crisis.
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China's state-run newspaper, the Global Times, reported an army movement today, members of the Chinese air force flew to the Ladakh border just within hours from central China's Hubei province.
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At the same time, Indian military sources have indicated that the dispute over the Ladakh border will not be resolved any time soon.
For more than a month now, tensions between India and China have been running high over the deployment of troops between the two countries in the Galwan Valley and Pangong Lake areas on the Ladakh border.
The two countries' military officials met on Saturday at the "Border Personnel Meeting Point" in Moldo (inside China, on the Line of Actual Control (LoC) in eastern Ladakh), after China agreed to a military-level meeting proposed by India to defuse tensions.
India was represented by Lieutenant General Harinder Singh, Commander of the 4th Corps, and China was led by the Commander of the Tibetan Military District.
The meeting was held in a "friendly atmosphere" and the two sides sought a "peaceful solution", the Indian foreign ministry said today - but did not say anything about withdrawing troops from the disputed border area.
Sreeram Chaulia, a researcher and writer on international relations, however, said the meeting was not meant to be too much - because in a country like China, everything is at the behest of the supreme leader, and everyone is looking at his decision.
In his words, "Xi Jinping is not only the president of the republic, he is also the top leader of the Communist Party and the head of the Central Military Commission - full control of the army in his hands ."
"So in my viewpoint, Narendra Modi and Xi Jinping have to talk directly to each other to resolve this crisis."
"I speculate no country wants an end to the war, and we have managed to defuse tensions through a hotline between the top leaders in the past."
Indian military sources in Delhi on Sunday indicated that both sides were fairly adamant in their position at the Moldo meeting yesterday.
Just as India have refused to stop working on the roads and infrastructure that are building along the Ladakh border, so Chinese have refused to back down from the way they have advanced in Galwan Valley, Demchok or Pangong Lake.
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Former Indian Army Chief General Shankar Roy Chowdhury, however, described the conflict as "positive" on India's part.
"It's favorable for India because our interests are intact there," he told.
"Apart from that, we also have access to Daulat Beg Oldi, a major transit point in the Himalayas and a point of contention with Pakistan."
"As far as I realize, India's position is that we will never give up what we consider to be our territory - and stay where we are."
"There is no suspicion that this is a huge transition from the humiliation we suffered in China during or after the war of 1962," said General Roy Chowdhury.
However, it is now clear that the military conflict on India's northern border is not going to be resolved any time soon.
Three years ago, Indian and Chinese troops faced each other for 72 days at Doklam on the border between Sikkim and Bhutan - so it would not be a surprise if the ongoing conflict in Ladakh lasted for 172 days or even till winter.
- Translated from BBC Bangla
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