China carries out first patrol in Depsang after disengagement, goes up to ‘traditional points’
New Delhi: China’s People’s Liberation Army (PLA) has carried out its first patrol in the Depsang Plains, according to the mutually agreed terms of the disengagement agreement signed between the two countries last month, ThePrint has learnt.
Sources in the defence and security establishment told ThePrint that a group of Chinese troops carried out its patrol on Monday.
The sources said that according to the agreement, the Chinese troops crossed the bottleneck area till the point they used to come in earlier. They said the PLA would usually cross the bottleneck but was stopped immediately after.
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The sources said that the Chinese claim line lies much beyond where the PLA patrolled Monday. The Chinese claim lines, they said, come just short of ...