{"id":5330,"date":"2020-09-25T05:05:43","date_gmt":"2020-09-25T05:05:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ncrfrontlinenews.com\/?p=5330"},"modified":"2020-09-25T05:05:43","modified_gmt":"2020-09-25T05:05:43","slug":"ladakh-standoff-china-wants-india-to-vacate-key-dominant-heights-before-lac-de-escalation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ncrfrontlinenews.com\/?p=5330","title":{"rendered":"Ladakh Standoff: China wants India to vacate key dominant heights before LAC de-escalation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Leh (Ladakh):<\/strong>\u00a0The military stand-off between India and China at the Line of Actual Control (LAC) in Ladakh has continued for more than\u00a0four months now with both the Indian Army and the People&#8217;s Liberation Army (PLA) massing huge numbers of forces on both sides.<\/p>\n<p>Despite several rounds of dialogue at the military and diplomatic levels, the crisis seems set to continue into the next few months.<\/p>\n<p>The Chinese are now making several unreasonable demands which make it difficult for India to back off from the standoff.<\/p>\n<p>China is insisting that India vacates strategic heights on the south bank of Pangong Lake ahead of talks on disengagement on the LAC, top Indian Army sources said.<\/p>\n<p>During the Corps Commander-level talks, China told India that will not discuss disengagement in eastern Ladakh, where the build-up by both sides has triggered a war- like situation over the last four months, till the time India vacates the strategic positions.<\/p>\n<p>Chinese People&#8217;s Liberation Army troops are adamant on resolving the situation first on the south bank where the Indian troops are in position of strength tactically, but India wants a roadmap for de-escalation all along the Line of Actual Control (LAC) in eastern Ladakh to be drawn out.<\/p>\n<p>India stated, during the talks, that all friction areas, including Depsang, should be discussed for disengagement all along the LAC.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Why should discussions be restricted to one or two places when there is a massive build-up all across the LAC,&#8221; a top Indian Army officer said<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Leh (Ladakh):\u00a0The military stand-off between India and China at the Line of Actual Control (LAC) in Ladakh has continued for more than\u00a0four months now with both the Indian Army and the People&#8217;s Liberation Army (PLA) massing huge numbers of forces on both sides. Despite several rounds of dialogue at the military and diplomatic levels, the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5333,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-5330","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-international"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncrfrontlinenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5330","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncrfrontlinenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncrfrontlinenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncrfrontlinenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncrfrontlinenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5330"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ncrfrontlinenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5330\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5334,"href":"https:\/\/ncrfrontlinenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5330\/revisions\/5334"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncrfrontlinenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/5333"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncrfrontlinenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5330"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncrfrontlinenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5330"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncrfrontlinenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5330"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}