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Feb 24, 2021

Watch | China Not Keen on Further Disengagement, Withdrawal at Depsang Looks Unlikely: Ajai Shukla

He said at Saturday’s meeting there was “recitation from both sides of their positions but nothing new. No real discussion on disengagement”.

A top strategic affairs analyst, widely considered the best informed in India on military matters, has said that at Saturday’s 10th round of commander-level talks between India and China, China was dragging its feet which clearly suggested it was not keen on further disengagement.

Colonel Ajai Shukla, the strategic affairs editor of the Business Standard, said: “The feeling I get, and it’s based on people I have talked to who are close to or involved in the talks, is that the Chinese are not keen on further disengagement. They are dragging their feet. They claim Hot Springs and Gogra as their own territory. They are not even willing to talk about Depsang”.

He said at Saturday’s meeting there was “recitation from both sides of their positions but nothing new. No real discussion on disengagement”.

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