The PLA once more advanced on the Chumar area near the border region between India and China on Thursday, after they had previously retreated from a four day standoff which had cast a shadow over the summit between the leaders of the two countries on Sept. 18, reports the Times of India.
Chinese president Xi Jinping's visit to India, seen as an effort to strengthen ties with India and thus pull it away from the US, was closely watched by Japan and the US, both keen to include India in efforts to curb China's rising influence in Asia, said the New Dehli-based Economic Times.
The effort was overshadowed however by long-existing border disputes between the two countries. Indian prime minister Narendra Modi brought up the border issue during the China-India bilateral talks on business cooperation. Xi responded during the meeting that the boundary disputes are "certain incidents" that can be managed by both sides, according to the report.
Hours after the meeting, Chinese troops deployed to an area India claims as its territory across the Line of Actual Control (LAC)–a de facto border that runs across the Himalayas between China and India–in the Chumar area of India's northeastern Ladakh started retreating. The Indian army also simultaneously reduced their presence in the area.
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