The Indian and Chinese foreign ministers agreed their troops should disengage from a tense border standoff, maintain proper distance and ease tensions in the cold-desert Ladakh region where the two sides had their deadliest clash in decades in June. In a separate statement, Wang said "China-India relations have once again come to a crossroads." The frontier troops must quickly disengage so that the situation may de-escalate," it quoted Wang as saying. The two nations fought a border war in 1962 that spilled into Ladakh and ended in an uneasy truce. Since then, troops have guarded the undefined border area, occasionally brawling.

Source: CBC News September 11, 2020 03:45 UTC