China Gained Nothing, Only Lost Face at the End of Nine Months of Standoff, Says Lt Gen YK Joshi
Lt Gen Joshi said Chinese had been aiming to shift their claims further along the LAC and acquire more dominating heights but achieved nothing.
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China Gained Nothing, Only Lost Face at the End of Nine Months of Standoff, Says Lt Gen YK Joshi
At the end of nine months of military standoff with the Indian Army in eastern Ladakh, China has only lost face and earned a bad name, said Lt Gen YK Joshi, the General Officer Commanding-in-Chief of the Army’s Northern Command. In an exclusive interview, Lt Gen Joshi said the Chinese had been aiming to shift their claims further along the LAC and acquire more dominating heights but they have achieved nothing in the past nine months and have gone back to status quo ante. "It’s very surprising that they did what they did. I was a brigade commander from 2009-11, when we had only 2 battalions looking after the entire Eastern Ladakh," he expressed astonishment at China's attempts to shift the Line of Actual Control (LAC) as far as possible. Russia's S-400 Missile Defense System is Best, U.S. Firm Stratfor's Claim Explaining what could have motivated Chinese action and what they hoped to gain from the situation, Lt Gen Joshi said, "Since 2009-11, we have been improvi…
