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'With China, You Have To Compete...': Indian Army Chief Says LAC Situation 'Not Normal'
??Speaking at the Chanakya Defence Dialogue, the Army chief said the situation at the de facto border is "stable" but the Indian side wants it to be restored to what it was before April 2020.
Indian Army chief General Upendra Dwivedi
New Delhi: Indian Army chief General Upendra Dwivedi on Tuesday said that the situation at the Line of Actual Control (LAC) is sensitive and “not normal.” General Dwivedi said the trust between Indian and Chinese forces at the LAC has become the "biggest casualty".
Speaking at the Chanakya Defence Dialogue, the Army chief said the situation at the de facto border is "stable" but the Indian side wants it to be restored to what it was before April 2020.
"As far as China is concerned, it has been intriguing our minds for quite some time. With China, you have to compete, cooperate, coexist, confront, and contest... So what's the situation today? It's stable, but it's not normal and it's sensitive. We want the situation to be restored to what it was before April 2020, whether in terms of the ground occupation situation or the buffer zones which have been created or patrolling which have been kind of planned as of now. So until that situation is restored, as far as we are concerned, the situation will remain sensitive and we are fully operationally prepared to face any kind of contingency... Trust has become the biggest casualty," he said.
India and China held two rounds of diplomatic talks in July and August to find an early resolution of outstanding issues on the LAC in eastern Ladakh.
"The positive signaling is coming from the diplomatic side, but what we need to understand (is that) the diplomatic side gives options and possibilities," he said, according to PTI.
Indian Army chief on Lebanon pager blast
Upendra Dwivedi said the move by Israel to set up a shell company that manufactured the "explosive pagers" sent to Lebanon in order to derail the Iran-backed Hezbollah terror group was a "masterstroke". The Army Chief said the move required years and years of preparation by Israel."The war does not start the day you start fighting, it starts the day you start planning," General Dwivedi said.
"Israel has done something different. Israel had decided that Hamas was their primary target. So, Israel first wiped out Hamas and then focused on the other side (Hezbollah). The shell company that was created for the pagers was something of a masterstroke by Israel," he said.
Last month, multiple explosions of pagers and walkie-talkies of Hezbollah members in Lebanon killed nearly 40 and left over 3,000 injured.
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