After dilly dallying for days, China has agreed to have another round of high level military level talks with India on Monday to resolve the ongoing tension at the Line of Actual Control (LAC) in Ladakh.  This meeting was agreed upon in the parleys between External Affairs Minister  S Jaishankar and his Chinese counterpart Wang Yi on September 10 in Moscow. The two ministers agreed for speedy disengagement and de-escalation at the border.

The military talks comprise Corps Commander level talks between Lt General Harinder Singh and his Chinese counterpart Major General Liu Lin.  They have already held five rounds of talks since June 6 to bring down temperatures but these parleys did not yield any result. The last round was held on August 2 and both the sides agreed to withdraw mutually from all the friction points and reduce additional troops and weapons from the depth areas on either sides of the LAC.

However, China did not honour the commitment and refused to withdraw troops leading to increasing tension in the already volatile situation.  In fact, this issue figured prominently during Defence Minister Rajnath Singh talks with China defence minister Wei Fenghe and the foreign ministers of the two nations.

At the moment, more than one lakh troops from both the countries are amassed at the 1,700 km LAC in the Ladakh.  The China Study Group headed by National Security Advisor (NSA)Ajit Doval two days back finalized the stand to be taken by the Indian commander during the forthcoming talks

The high powered CSG attended by the Defence Minister and the external affairs minister besides the military top brass also reviewed the operational readiness of the armed forces in guarding the 4,000 km long LAC stretching  from Ladakh in the west to Arunachal Pradesh in the east.