As per report india and china are set to hold the fifth round of Corps commander level military talks between the two sides on sunday (August 2nd). Sources said that the 5th round of military-level talks will be held in Moldo on the Chinese side. The indian side will focus on complete disengagement by china in the Finger area.
Meanwhile india and china have held a series of talks since the clash that took place between indian and Chinese troops on the night of 15/16 june at Galwan area killed 20 indian soldiers along with an unidentified number of troops of the People's Liberation army (PLA). Earlier reports came that the disengagement of indian and Chinese troops at Galwan Valley, PP-15, 14, and 17A in eastern Ladakh was completed. Chinese troops are still present in the Depsang Plains area, Gogra and the Fingers area along the Pangong River, where india and china started to disengage by establishing a buffer zone between the two sides.
The four previous rounds of meetings between Leh-based 14 Corps' commander Lieutenant Harinder Singh and Major General Liu Lin, Head of the Southern Xinjiang Military district, were held on june 6, 22, 30, and 14. The Chinese have been raising their strength by sending additional boats to the tension areas of Pangong Lake and setting up new huts to host more troops, just as disengagement begins. The latest round of talks had come in the wake of claims that china is not de-escalating the situation along the LAC and also deployed 40,000 troops in the Eastern Ladakh region. This prompted the indian army to send a similar number of troops to counter the Chinese deployment.
