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India, once a counter to China's military clout, now finds itself unable to garner support from the very countries it signed agreements with. India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi visits India's Himalayan desert region of Ladakh, India, July 3, 2020, in this still image taken from video. Photo: ANI Numerous strategic partnerships and security arrangements that India had recently built up to counter China’s growing hegemony and territorial ambitions, have proved futile in all attempts at settling the enduring crisis posed by its People’s Liberation Army (PLA) along the line of actual control (LAC) in Ladakh. Senior military officers claimed that all these stridently proclaimed regional pacts, agreed 2014 onwards and confined largely to the maritime domain, have failed in providing New Delhi any leverage in ‘pressuring’ Beijing into vacating large tracts of its territory occupied by the PLA since early May. “The clout these much publicised alliances had promised, and which cou...

India will keep a close watch and carefully verify over the next 10 days whether Chinese soldiers pull back further for concrete "disengagement" between the rival troops in eastern Ladakh before discussing "de-escalation" at the next corps commander-level meeting. Representative Image The fifth round of talks between 14 Corps commander Lt Gen Harinder Singh and South Xinjiang Military District chief Maj Gen Liu Lin will be held after the "partial disengagement" at Pangong Tso and Gogra-Hot Springs, under way since the beginning of this month, "hopefully" leads to a "complete disengagement", top sources said. "The People's Liberation Army (PLA), in the fourth round on July 14, indicated its willingness to move back further at Pangong Tso and Gogra-Hot Springs. But it's consulting its politico-military hierarchy. We will have to wait to see how much it translates into actual action on the ground," a source said. This was...