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Chinese troops and India are no more engaged in four areas, says one of the sources in the Indian Army. There are signs of thaw on the ground at the line of control between India and China since a month.

Earlier they were engaged in those four areas eye ball to eye ball. These are PP14, PP15 and PP17 A in the Galwan Valley and Hot Springs.

In total, there are around 1,500 men on each side and from their current positions they have stepped back from 1.2 to 2 km.

According to an update given by the top-level sources in the army, the Indian territory was never entered by the Galwan Valley and People’s Liberation Army. As per reports of the ground commanders, there were 20 lorries ferry Chinese troops and ammunition out.

For a month, when the Chinese came into Finger 4 and built a ‘sangar’ or even known as a fortified position, thousand troops pitted against each other.

The LAC runs through finger 4 and finger 8. In boats, several soldiers moved back in the Pangong Tso area and finger 4 is held by the Chinese.

Due to getting disengaged in the Galwan Valley and Hot Springs, on Wednesday, at various levels, India and China will have a discussion on this.

To sort out the standoff at Pangang Tso won’t be easy and there might be different level of talks between Lt Gen Harinder Singh, the 14 Corps Commander and his Chinese counterpart Maj Gen Lin Lui, commander of the South Xinjiang Military District.

Before this, on June 6th, there was a discussion between the two at Chushul–Moldo BPM went on for a marathon six hours and this is where they disagreed.

Sources say that Indian military is looking at it as ‘muscle flexing’. On the other hand, the Chinese have two artillery regiments, an infantry division, fighter jets, AWACS as part of its rear detachment and two armored regiments.

This disturbance between Indian and Chinese troops started since May 5th and there have been several clashes in Pangong Tso in eastern Ladakh and Nakula in north Sikkim.

To maintain peace at the LAC, last week, both India and China had agreed to solve their conflicts.

- Neha Makhija