{"id":26584,"date":"2020-06-03T01:41:18","date_gmt":"2020-06-02T20:11:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kashmir.today\/china-has-moved-troops-in-significant-numbers-rajnath-singh\/"},"modified":"2020-06-03T01:41:18","modified_gmt":"2020-06-02T20:11:18","slug":"china-has-moved-troops-in-significant-numbers-rajnath-singh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/?p=26584","title":{"rendered":"China has moved troops in significant numbers: Rajnath Singh"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong><em>Important dialogue between senior military leaders on June 6, he says<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Defence Minister Rajnath Singh on Tuesday acknowledged that China had moved troops in \u201csignificant numbers\u201d in the ongoing stand-off at the Line of Actual Control (LAC). There was an important dialogue between the two countries scheduled on June 6 to resolve the issue, he stated.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Separately, sources said a dialogue was held on Tuesday at the Major General level.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cIt is true that there have been differences on the border at this time. A significant number of Chinese troops have come in. India too has done what it should,\u201d Mr. Singh told CNN News18. \u201cAs of now, negotiations are going on at the military level. On June 6, there will be talks between senior military officers. I discussed about this with the Army Chief today,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Dialogue between military commanders had been going on daily, sources said, including at the level of Major Generals and on Tuesday too. No concrete resolution had been achieved, it had been learnt and the talks would continue, the sources said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Mr. Singh observed that China should also think seriously in this regard so that the issue was resolved completely. Referring to the differences in perception between the two countries on the alignment of the LAC, he said there was something constantly going on between India and China regarding the border. \u201cThere will hardly be a year when there is no face-off on the border between both the Indian Army and the Chinese Army,\u201d he said. Sometime there had been such tensions that firearms had been snatched, he noted.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Specifically asked to comment on reports of Chinese troops moving inside Indian territory, he said without getting into specifics, \u201cIndia will not infringe on anyone\u2019s sovereignty and at the same time India will let not anyone infringe on its sovereignty.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">For close to a month now, Indian and Chinese troops have been engaged in stand-offs at several locations along the LAC after Chinese troops moved into Indian territory at Pangong Tso, Galwan Nalah, Hot Springs in eastern Ladakh and Naku La in Sikkim. Chinese troops have set up tents and brought in equipment inside at some places while also building up presence close to Indian positions on their side of the border.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Mr. Singh later said on Twitter quoting the interview that India\u2019s negotiation with China was on and so he \u201cwould not like to express doubts.\u201d \u201cIf the issue is resolved through dialogue then what else can be a good thing,\u201d he said and added that the \u2018forehead of India\u2019 would not bend under any circumstances.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>With inputs from <\/em><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/news\/national\/china-has-moved-troops-in-significant-numbers-rajnath-singh\/article31733197.ece\">The Hindu<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Important dialogue between senior military leaders on June 6, he says Defence Minister Rajnath Singh on Tuesday acknowledged that China had moved troops in \u201csignificant numbers\u201d in the ongoing stand-off at the Line of Actual Control (LAC). There was an important dialogue between the two countries scheduled on June 6 to resolve the issue, he [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":26378,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26584","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-national"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26584","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=26584"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26584\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26584"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26584"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26584"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}