{"id":352493,"date":"2020-05-21T11:51:29","date_gmt":"2020-05-21T06:21:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=352493"},"modified":"2020-05-21T12:31:58","modified_gmt":"2020-05-21T07:01:58","slug":"india-builds-road-north-of-ladakh-lake-china-warns-of-necessary-counter-measures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/india-builds-road-north-of-ladakh-lake-china-warns-of-necessary-counter-measures\/","title":{"rendered":"India builds road north of Ladakh lake, China warns of \u2018necessary counter-measures\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>TWO ROUNDS of talks between Indian and Chinese local military commanders at Pangong Tso, where troops of the two sides came to blows two weeks ago, remained inconclusive Tuesday and Beijing warned of \u201cnecessary counter-measures\u201d. It claimed the Indian Army had \u201centered Chinese soil on the Baijing and Lujin duan section of the Sino-Indian border, obstructing the normal patrol of Chinese border troops, and was \u201cattempting to unilaterally change the status quo of border territory\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>While the Army and Ministry of External Affairs maintained silence, officials in New Delhi described the situation as \u201cdelicately poised\u201d and \u201cvery sensitive\u201d at a time when the country is grappling with the Covid-19 pandemic and its fallout.<\/p>\n<p>The Indian Express has learnt that there has been movement of troops to eastern Ladakh following the continuing objections of the Chinese to the construction of a road in the Galwan river area, well within Indian territory.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TWO ROUNDS of talks between Indian and Chinese local military commanders at Pangong Tso, where troops of the two sides came to blows two weeks ago, remained inconclusive Tuesday and Beijing warned of \u201cnecessary counter-measures\u201d. It claimed the Indian Army had \u201centered Chinese soil on the Baijing and Lujin duan section of the Sino-Indian border, obstructing the normal patrol of Chinese border troops, and was \u201cattempting to unilaterally change the status quo of border territory\u201d. While the Army and Ministry of External Affairs maintained silence, officials in New Delhi described the situation as \u201cdelicately poised\u201d and \u201cvery sensitive\u201d at a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-352493","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/352493","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=352493"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/352493\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=352493"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=352493"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=352493"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}