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Chief of Defence Staff (CDS) General Anil Chauhan connected Friday (February 13, 2026) said that autarkic India was keen connected gathering a bully narration with China. He said that aft Independence, it was for India to determine wherever the frontiers lay.
“[Jawaharlal] Nehru astir apt knew that we had thing similar the McMahon Line successful the east, and we had immoderate benignant of assertion successful the Ladakh area, but it was not intelligibly defined. That is wherefore helium wanted to spell successful for the Panchsheel Agreement... probably,” General Chauhan said.
“And the Chinese also, erstwhile they had alleged liberated Tibet and had moved into Lhasa and into Xinjiang, this peculiar country was utmost from some ends. So, they astir apt wanted stableness successful this portion and that is wherefore this country assumed priority,” the CDS added.
General Chauhan said that erstwhile Tibet was occupied by China, “India gave up those privileges”. “India recognised China and supported its imperishable spot successful the United Nations. The Himalayan buffer that existed betwixt america and Tibet evaporated and was converted into a nonstop border,” helium said.
The CDS added that successful 1954, India recognised Tibet arsenic portion of China, and some countries signed the Panchsheel Agreement. With this, India assumed that it had settled its bluish borderline and the lone country not settled done a ceremonial treaty, from India’s perspective, rested connected the Panchsheel Agreement, helium said.
Trade concerns, LAC stableness apical absorption successful India-China Strategic Dialogue
General Chauhan said India believed that the legitimacy of the borderline had been reinforced by identifying six passes done which commercialized and pilgrimage would instrumentality spot – Shipki La, Mana, Niti, Kungri Bingri, Darma, and Lipulekh. “However, the Chinese presumption was that the statement was negotiated lone for commercialized and did not bespeak their basal connected the borderline dispute,” helium added.
The CDS underlined the expanding strategical value of the Himalayan frontiers. He highlighted the government’s focused efforts connected infrastructure improvement successful borderline areas and emphasised the request for integrated, forward-looking strategical planning.
General Chauhan was speaking connected the taxable ‘Frontiers, Borders and LAC: The Middle Sector’ during the inauguration of Bharat Himalayan International Strategic Manch (BHISM), a deliberation vessel successful Dehradun. He noted that issues specified arsenic clime change, h2o security, borderline management, subject modernisation and catastrophe preparedness required a holistic Himalayan perspective.
Lieutenant General Ajay Kumar Singh (retd.), besides portion of BHISM, outlined the objectives of the task and stated that the forum would supply informed argumentation recommendations to the Government of India connected strategical issues related to the Himalayan region, portion fostering collaboration with world and probe institutions successful and astir Dehradun.
