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The Line of Actual Control (LAC) is a notional demarcation line that separates Indian-controlled territory from Chinese-controlled territory in the Sino-Indian border dispute. Limits of patrolling PPs within the LAC and the patrol routes that join them are known as limits of patrolling.
It maintains that the two sides have different perception of where the Line of Actual Control (LAC) between the territories of the two countries lies. Further, the Chinese have their own understanding of where the Indians perceive their LAC to be, and vice versa. [1] For many decades India and China carried forward the differing perceptions theory.
In the end, both sides agreed upon the term Line of Actual Control, the phrase that Zhou had used in 1959. [26] Hence, the 1993 became the first bilateral agreement between China and India to contain the phrase Line of Actual Control. [22] The LAC at the time the agreement was signed was being referenced.
On 5 May, the first standoff began as a clash between Indian [g] and Chinese soldiers at a beach of Pangong Tso, a lake shared between India and Tibet, China, with the Line of Actual Control (LAC) passing through it. [124] [125] A video showed soldiers from both nations engaging in fistfights and stone-pelting along the LAC. [126]
In April 2013 India claimed, referencing their own perception [54] of the Line of Actual Control (LAC) location, that Chinese troops had established a camp in the Daulat Beg Oldi sector, 10 km (6.2 mi) on their side of the Line of Actual Control. This figure was later revised to a 19 km (12 mi) claim.
The line was the focus of a brief war in 1962, when Indian and Chinese forces struggled to control a disputed area (shown in red), much of which is a high altitude wasteland. The Line of Actual Control (LAC) in the eastern sector of the border is broadly the McMahon Line agreed between British India and Tibet in 1914.
Border Personnel Meeting points are locations along the disputed Sino-Indian territories on Line of Actual Control (LAC) where the armies of both countries hold ceremonial and practical meetings to resolve border issues and improve relations. While border meetings have been held since the 1990s, the first formal Border Personnel Meeting point ...
In early May 2020, troops of the People's Liberation Army and Indian Army engaged in melee at locations along the notional Line of Actual Control (LAC), the disputed boundary between China and India. [1] [2] It escalated on 15/16 June 2020 resulting in deaths on both sides.