With Chinese State Councilor and Foreign Minister Wang Yi confirming his arrival in Moscow on Wednesday night, on September 10, the bilateral meeting with Indian Foreign Minister S Jaishankar is confirmed to discuss ways and means to resolve the current confrontation in Ladakh. on the sidelines of the ministerial meeting of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) organized by the Russian Federation. The meeting time is running out.
While EAM Jaishankar will arrive in Moscow on Tuesday night with office officials from the Chinese division, Foreign Minister Wang will arrive the next day to discuss the border escalation in Ladakh. The long-awaited meeting of foreign ministers is expected to see a move towards total disengagement and de-escalation of the People’s Liberation Army (PLA) with the Indian side insisting that China follow bilateral agreements and protocols since 1993.
Although Indian Defense Minister Rajnath Singh met with his Chinese counterpart General Wei Fenghe on the same platform on September 5, the talks yielded no results and both sides simply stated their formal positions. The meeting took place after Indian army troops anticipated a PLA aggression in southern Pangong Tso on August 29-30 and occupied the Rezang La mountain range line without yielding to the Chinese show of military force. nor allow them to cross the Indian perception of the Line of Royal Control (LAC).
During the meeting, Foreign Minister Jaishankar will remind his Chinese counterpart to implement past bilateral agreements in letter and spirit, including maintaining minimum forces throughout LAC’s 3,488 km. It will also demand that PLA forces restore the status quo ante at Gogra-Hot Springs, the Finger 4 relief function on the north shore of Pangong Tso.
Since the takeover of India on August 29-30, the Xi Jinping regime has been calling on the Indian army to withdraw from its new positions south of Pangong Tso. The Chinese communist government’s decision to deflect domestic discontent by invoking nationalism in Ladakh and the South China Sea is understood to have failed. According to Chinese observers, the PLA’s aggression in Ladakh will continue until the CCP General Secretary XI can control internal dissent, be it on language grounds, such as in Inner Mongolia, floods, economy or coronavirus that started in Wuhan.
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