‘Cherish current trend’: China to India as LAC breakthrough eludes | News – Times of India Videos

Despite no breakthrough yet again in the marathon military talks, the Chinese military on Sunday said that India should “cherish the current positive trend” of de-escalation and cooling down of border tensions. Indian Army sources had said that “no action plan could be finalised” for completing the partial troop disengagement at Gogra, Hot Springs and Demchok, let alone any progress on the far more intractable issue of blocking of Indian patrols in the strategically-located Depsang Plains, during the 13-hour military dialogue at Chushul on Friday. In its press release on the latest round of talks, the People’s Liberation Army (PLA) said India should cherish the de-escalation and cooling in the border area. It was apparently referring to the disengagement of troops from the most contentious area of the Pangong Lake in February. Both sides should also adhere to the consensus reached in the previous talks, the state-run China Global Television Network (CGTN) on Sunday quoted the press release by a PLA spokesperson on the talks held at the Chushul border point on the Indian side of the Line of Actual Control (LAC) in eastern Ladakh.