India Has 'Given in' to China's 1959 Claim on LAC: Lt Gen HS Panag (Retd)
Gen. Panag claimed that the "disengagement" is happening exactly as per China's 1959 claim, because India has no military capability to alter it".
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India Has 'Given in' to China's 1959 Claim on LAC: Lt Gen HS Panag (Retd) Gen. Panag claimed that the "disengagement" is happening exactly as per China's 1959 claim line because India has no military capability to alter the situation. However, he said, it is "good for the long term peace". NEW DELHI : Though the Centre has trumpeted the India-China disengagement along the Line of Actual Control (LAC) in Ladakh as a victory, Army veteran Lt. Gen. H.S. Panag called it pragmatic acceptance of weakness and Beijing's 1959 claim. In an exclusive interview with IANS , Gen. Panag claimed that the " disengagement " is happening exactly as per China's 1959 claim line because India has no military capability to alter the situation. However, he said, it is "good for the long term peace" since the disengagement in Ladakh is likely a part of the broader plan for settlement of border disputes between the two countries. The plan, he presumed, will include acceptance of McMohan Line in Northeast with some give and take between Ne…
