Ice breaker: 3-a-day LAC meets

Daily frontline talks ease India-China tensions. 1,100 quiet meetings in one year signal a genuine thaw

- FPJ News Service

For the first time since the violent clashes of 2020 pushed India—China relations into a deep freeze, New Delhi is signalling a genuine thaw — not through grand diplomatic theatrics, but through three modest conversations held every single day along the Line of Actual Control (LAC).

Indian Army Chief General Upendra Dwivedi revealed at the Chanakya Defence Dialogue curtain-raiser in New Delhi that Indian and Chinese troops have met 1,100 times over the past year, a remarkable cadence averaging three ground-level interactions a day. These exchanges, quiet and routine, have become the backbone of a slow but steady normalisation process between Asia’s two largest armies.

“There has been a lot of improvement in our relations since last October,’ Dwivedi said during a live conversation at the Manekshaw Centre. “The cooperation at the ground level is very good. Both sides are showing flexibility.”