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There’s been a lot of change over the past one year — a lot of improvement in relations -Army Chief General Upendra Dwivedi On India’s relations with China
The Chinese side informs the Indian side about their construction activities these days, General Dwivedi said, and that the scope of friction has reduced and tempers have cooled along the Line of Actual Control (LAC), the de facto border between the two countries.
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Indian and Chinese troops are engaging better with the improvement in bilateral ties, Indian Army Chief General Upendra Dwivedi said.
The Chinese side informs the Indian side about their construction activities these days, General Dwivedi said, and that the scope of friction has reduced and tempers have cooled along the Line of Actual Control (LAC), the de facto border between the two countries.
Construction on the Indian side in response to construction on the Chinese side had reportedly triggered the violent hand-to-hand combat in the Galwan river valley in June 2020, when at least 24 Indian and Chinese soldiers were killed. That led to a freeze in diplomatic relations and the gathering of thousands of troops along the LAC.
“There’s been a lot of change over the past one year — a lot of improvement in relations,” General Dwivedi said during a broadcasted chat with an Indian television presenter at the Manekshaw Centre.
It was a curtain-raiser event for this year’s Chanakya Defence Dialogue, which will be held in the city jointly by the Indian Army and the Centre for Land Warfare Studies, a think-tank, over November 27-28. The cooperation is good at this time, General Dwivedi said referring to Chinese troops, and added that 1,100 ground-level interactions have taken place over the past one year, which translates to three interactions each day.
“But major decisions are still taken at high levels,” he said, adding: “We look for solutions on the ground. Both sides are showing flexibility.”