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On #China- #India, there's been a fair bit of talk re how the boundary is undemarcated & how clarification of the Line of Actual Control could help. If you're trying to understand what that all means & where that stands, read @ShivshankaMenon's Choices http://brook.gs/2asPTk7 1/
Modi in 2014: "clarification of Line of Actual Control would greatly contribute to our efforts to maintain peace and tranquility and requested President Xi to resume the stalled process of clarifying the LAC. We should also seek an early settlement of the boundary question" 2/
I don't know if we've seen the Chinese side say anything publicly on LAC clarification recently. But this 2015 piece by @ananthkrishnan quoted the Chinese Foreign Ministry's Deputy Director General for Asian Affairs re PRC reluctance re clarifying LAC 3/ https://www.indiatoday.in/world/china/story/china-lac-narendra-modi-pok-south-china-sea-karakoram-highway-255522-2015-06-04
Just ahead of taking up his post in Delhi last summer, @China_Amb_India Sun Weidong talked of an "early settlement" to the boundary dispute, but didn't say anything re LAC clarification 4/ https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/china-for-early-settlement-of-boundary-dispute-with-india-sun-weidong/articleshow/70311127.cms
These were the Chinese (left) and Indian (right) readouts of the last meeting of the Special Representatives in December 2019. 5/
There were also a couple of HT articles by Shishir Gupta & @Rezhasan, & by @spatranobis on China's "early harvest" proposal
1. https://www.hindustantimes.com/india-news/india-links-china-s-sikkim-offer-with-middle-sector-map/story-yZE2yhv7oEdnkf9oBXJZuL.html
2. https://www.hindustantimes.com/india-news/actively-exploring-early-harvest-of-border-dispute-with-india-china/story-AFgyU7GwnwgC9jklXZ0wlJ.html 6/
1. https://www.hindustantimes.com/india-news/india-links-china-s-sikkim-offer-with-middle-sector-map/story-yZE2yhv7oEdnkf9oBXJZuL.html
2. https://www.hindustantimes.com/india-news/actively-exploring-early-harvest-of-border-dispute-with-india-china/story-AFgyU7GwnwgC9jklXZ0wlJ.html 6/
A few days ago, former Indian ambassador to China @GBambawale said the following w/r/t LAC clarification... 7/ https://twitter.com/tanvi_madan/status/1262824655666233346?s=20
