A spokesperson for China’s Defense Ministry, responding to a question at a news conference Thursday about the disengagement at the border, said the two sides have “further narrowed differences and expanded consensus.”
Chinese and Indian officials have maintained close dialogue and exchanged views on border issues through diplomatic and military channels, spokesman Zhang Xiaogang said, according to a transcript of the briefing. “The two sides agreed to strengthen dialogue and consultation, accommodate each other’s legitimate concerns and reach a mutually acceptable solution at an early date,” Zhang added.
Ties between the two countries have been frozen since June 2020, when clashes between soldiers along the disputed Himalayan border left at least 20 Indians and an unknown number of Chinese dead. Since then, there has been gradual progress in resolving the border crisis in more than 50 rounds of diplomatic and military talks.
Beijing’s latest comments follow meetings between Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi and his Indian counterpart Subrahmanyam Jaishankar in Laos in July, and India’s National Security Advisor Ajit Doval on the sidelines of the BRICS meeting in Russia earlier this month.
In a speech in New York on Wednesday, Jaishankar said China and India have resolved 75% of troop disengagement in the eastern Ladakh region.
“The main problem now is patrolling,” he said. “How do we both patrol to the Line of Actual Control?” he added.
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