China, India Agree To Reduce Tensions After Deadly Clash

Activists of Gujarat’s Karni Sena organisation break a Chinese made televisions during an anti-China demonstration in Ahmedabad on June 24, 2020. – China and India have agreed to reduce tensions a week after their deadliest clashes in over 50 years on the disputed Himalayan border left 20 Indian troops dead in brutal hand-to-hand fighting. SAM PANTHAKY / AFP.

The Press Trust of India said the meeting was between Lieutenant General Harinder Singh, commander of the 14 Corps, and Major General Liu Lin, commander of the Tibet Military District. There was no official comment from New Delhi but an Indian army source said that after the meeting, reportedly lasting almost 11 hours, that there was a “mutual consensus to disengage”.

While Indian Foreign Minister S. Jaishankar made no direct mention of the clashes in his opening remarks, Russia’s Sergei Lavrov said that Moscow saw no need to mediate between the two countries.Russia is a major supplier of arms to both countries. The June 15 violence took place around 4,500 metres above sea level in the Galwan river valley, where both sides accuse each other of encroaching on their respective territory.

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