Chinese troops erect another tent at DBO

China insists that some bunkers constructed by India at a key vantage point be dismantled

April 29, 2013 08:29 pm | Updated November 16, 2021 08:10 pm IST - Leh/New Delhi

Activists shout slogans during a protest in Jammu condemning Chinese incursion. India has accused Chinese soldiers of launching an incursion far into Indian territory.

Activists shout slogans during a protest in Jammu condemning Chinese incursion. India has accused Chinese soldiers of launching an incursion far into Indian territory.

Chinese troops have erected another tent in Daulat Beg Oldi (DBO) sector in Ladakh raising the number of such structures in the area of incursion to five, as the standoff between India and China on Monday entered the third week.

With China showing no signs of withdrawing its troops from the Indian territory, sources said efforts to break the impasse over the incursion yielded no results because of its insistence that some bunkers constructed by India at a key vantage point be dismantled.

China laid down this condition for pulling back from the place 19 km inside the Indian territory in DBO, where around 50 troops have been camping for the last over two weeks, sources said.

The government seized this issue at the meetings of the China Study Group, headed by the National Security Advisor Shivshankar Menon and including secretaries of key Ministries such as Defence, Home and External Affairs, sources said. The rigidity shown by the Chinese over its demand is also one of the reasons behind more flag meetings between the two sides not being held for over a week, they said.

Sources said the vantage point is at a junction between two mountains in Ladakh area from where the Indian troops could remain unseen and oversee the activities of the Chinese troops in that area

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