{"id":4190,"date":"2020-11-12T02:32:45","date_gmt":"2020-11-12T02:32:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/southandcentralasiablog\/?p=4190"},"modified":"2020-11-12T02:33:32","modified_gmt":"2020-11-12T02:33:32","slug":"india-china-on-the-verge-of-troop-disengagement-in-pangong","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/southandcentralasiablog\/2020\/11\/12\/india-china-on-the-verge-of-troop-disengagement-in-pangong\/","title":{"rendered":"India, China on the verge of troop disengagement in Pangong Tso-Chushul area"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Read more at:<br><a href=\"http:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/articleshow\/79177199.cms?utm_source=contentofinterest&amp;utm_medium=text&amp;utm_campaign=cppst\">http:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/articleshow\/79177199.cms?utm_source=contentofinterest&amp;utm_medium=text&amp;utm_campaign=cppst<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Tso-Chushul area<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Read more at:<br><a href=\"http:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/articleshow\/79177199.cms?utm_source=contentofinterest&amp;utm_medium=text&amp;utm_campaign=cppst\">http:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/articleshow\/79177199.cms?utm_source=contentofinterest&amp;utm_medium=text&amp;utm_campaign=cppst<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Read more at:<br><a href=\"http:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/articleshow\/79177199.cms?utm_source=contentofinterest&amp;utm_medium=text&amp;utm_campaign=cppst\">http:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/articleshow\/79177199.cms?utm_source=contentofinterest&amp;utm_medium=text&amp;utm_campaign=cppst<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">China and India have vowed to begin a de-escalation of tension in Pangong Tso-Chushul, a high-altitude area along the long disputed border of eastern Ladakh and Aksai Chin. Earlier this year, troops of the sides have engaged in deadly skirmishes due to border disputes, particularly the bloody incident in June in the Galwan Valley which led to the death of 20 Indian soldiers. These were the first violent encounters between the two nations since the 1962 Sino-Indian war, which was a conflict over the same exact regions in question. The disengagement of the region will be incremental and phased; each stage will see one-third of both nation\u2019s troops, tanks, and military vehicles depart from the disputed area, with China moving eastwards and India moving westwards. As of now, neither side has begun the process and tensions, despite the current quiet of the mountainous area, are still very perilously high.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In my last regional reports, I covered the ongoing conflicts in the Indian-occupied region of Jammu and Kashmir, which is disputed with Pakistan. Last year, India renounced the special autonomous status of the region, in a move where India asserted its power over both Pakistan and Kashmiri claims. Violent conflicts continue to rage on over the disputed region. The point of my bringing this up is that I believe it is directly linked to the recent incidents with China in Ladakh. A major question one has when reading about the recent skirmishes is: why is violence flaring again, right now, 58 years after the truce of 1962? It seems that India\u2019s motives for asserting control over the disputed borders with China are very similar to their motives for undoing Jammu and Kashmir\u2019s autonomy. In other words, by attempting to delegitimize Pakistan\u2019s claim over Jammu and Kashmir, India was also indirectly confronting China and its control of Aksai Chin, which India claims in full. Therefore, it makes sense why China, seeing their revocation of Kashmir\u2019s special status, would grow in their suspicion and wariness of India\u2019s movements along the disputed border.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Hopefully, the countries will follow up on their mutual plans to disengage. The prospect of more bloodshed over a petty border dispute between the two most populous nations (and nuclear powers) in the entire world is hardly desirable, especially on top of the already interminable violent feuding between Pakistan and India.&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Read more at:http:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/articleshow\/79177199.cms?utm_source=contentofinterest&amp;utm_medium=text&amp;utm_campaign=cppst Tso-Chushul area Read more at:http:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/articleshow\/79177199.cms?utm_source=contentofinterest&amp;utm_medium=text&amp;utm_campaign=cppst Read more at:http:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/articleshow\/79177199.cms?utm_source=contentofinterest&amp;utm_medium=text&amp;utm_campaign=cppst China and India have vowed to begin a de-escalation of tension in Pangong Tso-Chushul, a high-altitude area along the long disputed border of eastern Ladakh and Aksai Chin. Earlier this year, troops of the sides have engaged in deadly skirmishes due to border disputes, particularly the bloody incident in&#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/southandcentralasiablog\/2020\/11\/12\/india-china-on-the-verge-of-troop-disengagement-in-pangong\/\">Read more &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":156,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4190","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-analysis-post"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/southandcentralasiablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4190","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/southandcentralasiablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/southandcentralasiablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/southandcentralasiablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/156"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/southandcentralasiablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4190"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/southandcentralasiablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4190\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4192,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/southandcentralasiablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4190\/revisions\/4192"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/southandcentralasiablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4190"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/southandcentralasiablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4190"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/southandcentralasiablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4190"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}