The failure of military talks in the fall to ease a one-and-half year border standoff between India and China could lead to further militarization of the Line of Actual Control (LAC), the de facto China-India boundary. The commanders from both armies held talks on October 10 after the Indian army chief expressed his frustration over the massive deployment of troops and weaponry by China along the border. Both sides have already deployed tens of thousands of soldiers with artillery, tanks and fighter jets along the LAC, which separates Chinese and Indian-held territories and runs from Ladakh in the west to India’s eastern state of Arunachal Pradesh (Dawn, October 11). China claims both Ladakh and the entire Arunachal Pradesh. Adding fuel to Sino-India border tensions is a new land boundary law approved by Chinese lawmakers in the standing committee meeting of the National People’s Congress (NPC, October 23, 2021)
The China-India-Pakistan Triangle: China Strengthens Ties with Pakistan Amid Border Standoff with India (Syed Fazl-e-Haider, The Jamestown Foundation)
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