Astonishingly, nowhere in the 1993 agreement is there the provision to recognise the existing lines of deployment of the respective armies, as they were in 1993. The agreement does not reflect any attempt to have each side recognise the other’s line of deployment of troops at the time it was signed. If both armies are to respect the LAC, where is the line? The absence of a definition of this line allows ever new and surreptitious advances on the ground. The second is what the Chinese think they effectively control, which is well south of the line they were positioned at in 1993.

Source: The Hindu May 31, 2020 18:45 UTC