PLA de-Escalation at Gogra Area Stuck an Year After Bloody Galwan Skirmish
According to the top Indian military and intelligence officials, while the PLA has withdrawn its military infrastructure from Pangong Tso finger area.
One year after Lt Colonel B Santosh Babu and 19 other braves of the Indian Army lost their lives in brutal fisticuffs with aggressive People’s Liberation Army (PLA) at patrolling point 14 in Galwan River Valley, the situation in East Ladakh remains in tenterhooks with the Chinese army delaying the agreed de-escalation process in East Ladakh. Although the official figure of Chinese casualty in the Galwan skirmish will never be made public by Beijing, the Cabinet Committee on Security ministers of the Narendra Modi government is clear that the PLA numbers were much than the Indian toll. According to the top Indian military and intelligence officials, while the PLA has withdrawn its military infrastructure from Pangong Tso finger area to nearby headquarters at Rudog, the PLA military posture on patrolling point 15 A and 17 A or what is called Gogra-Hot Springs remains the same with the Chinese not restoring April 2020 status quo ante around Kong Ka La area. Besides this, the 2013 Depsang B…