Withdrawal from Eastern Ladakh will lead to de-escalation of forces in LAC | Latest news India

India and China will complete disengagement in the Depsang and Demchok areas of eastern Ladakh by Diwali, but the road to de-escalation along the 3,488-kilometer Line of Actual Control (LAC) is long and will undermine mutual trust and testing security of both the Indian Army and the Armed Forces. Chinese army.

While India and China will stop blocking each other at the Depsang Bulge bottleneck, the access route through which Raki Nullah flows into the Ardennes region. Since 2020, neither the Chinese side has been able to patrol outside the choke point area nor has the Indian side been able to patrol up to points 10 to 13 A. Similarly, the Indian Army will now be able to patrol from the Charding Pass to the junction. from Charding and Ningling Nullah, while PLA patrols will come from the Indus River to the Charding-Ningling Nullah junction.

Although the Special Representatives of India and China have been tasked to map out the route to de-escalation along the LAC, the task will be lengthy as India will have to transfer the equipment virtually as the area is bounded by two passes through the area of ​​Eastern Ladakh. The Chinese side, on the other hand, is a flat Tibetan plateau.

Similarly, the Chinese will have to remove another four combined armed brigades that have swept through Sikkim and Arunachal Pradesh in the run-up to the presidential elections. Xi Jinping to be anointed as China’s top leader in November 2022. Further, both sides will also have to consider de-escalation of their respective air forces as fighters were deployed on standby by both India and China, along with long-range missiles, tanks and artillery guns. and rocket regiments.

India-China road map moving forward

The roadmap to restore peace and tranquility in the LAC is a difficult exercise that requires not only consent from the political leadership but also approval from the Indian Army and PLA commanders on the ground as the terrain on the Indian side consists of high mountains and also consists of glaciers in the eastern sector. Ultimately, it will be the military commanders who will set the roadmap to de-escalation and relocation of forward-deployed forces on both sides.

It is important that the de-escalation must be based on equal and mutual safety and accident-free, as the escalation of 2020 has created a trust deficit that will not be easily overcome on either side. With both the Indian and Chinese militaries being disciplined and professional, the patrol agreement, which has the sanction of top leadership on both sides, will be adhered to if China and Bharat are mutually sensitive to each other’s concerns.