India-China relations have improved a lot over the last year: Army Chief General Dwivedi

General Dwivedi observed that they came to the conclusion that the more we talk on the border, the better.There have been a lot of meetings between military officials of India and China at every level as the two countries move forward on the path to normalcy along the 832 km LAC in eastern Ladakh, He highlighted that even the ground level commanders are in continuous touch. “Earlier it was only at the core commander level. Now we have taken it to the battalion commander level, company commander level,” he said.”In the last one year, we have done 1100 ground level interactions. That is, three interactions every day,” said the Army Chief. “If we take it to the higher level, then we will get stuck in the files. But if we go to the lower level, it is likely to be solved. There are directions from above too to solve it as much as possible at the ground level,” he said. But the major decisions will still be taken at the higher level, he added. Citing an example of the conversations taking place at the ground level, the Army Chief said, “Suppose they have to do some construction, then they tell us first. Earlier, they used to tell us, and such conversations used to be heated. But nowadays, if some construction is not right and if we tell them, they remove it. So, the cooperation at the ground level is very good.” Talking on disengagement, he said India and China have formed two groups — the expert group and working group. “The Working Mechanism for Consultation and Coordination (WMCC) also has representatives of our army. So these two groups will tell us the way forward, how we can solve the boundary problems. And whatever guidance they give, we will move forward according to that,” he added.



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