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With the Ladakh tensions in the focus, China has stepped up mind-games with India by demonstrating qualitative improvements in its firepower in Tibet, ahead of Defence Minister Rajnath Singh’s visit to Dushanbe where his Chinese counterpart, Wei Fenghe will also be present.
The duo is participating in a defence ministers conference of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation. Apart from India, China, Pakistan and Russia and key Central Asian Republics are members of the SCO.
It is, yet, not clear whether Singh and Wei will be meeting separately on the sidelines of the conclave. Earlier this month, External Affairs Minister Jishankar and his Chinese counterpart, Wang Yi had met in Dushanbe, where they re-visited the Ladakh situation as the fulcrum of frozen ties between India and China. Unlike China which wants to decouple the Ladakh situation from the other aspects of India-China ties, New Delhi is insisting that normalisation of ties can begin only after the status quo ante, as it existed in April 2020 is fully restored.
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