New Delhi: China’s repeated incursions into Indian territory this year has been in “complete disregard of all “mutually agreed norms”, the foreign ministry said today in a strongly worded statement that shredded Chinese claims that India is to be blamed for last week’s violence at Galwan Valley in which 20 soldiers died. In its hardest statement ever since the Ladakh standoff began, the Ministry of External Affairs today said, “Since early May, the Chinese side has been amassing a large contingent of troops and armaments along the LAC”. Army sources tell that there has been no disengagement on the ground since Lt General level talks earlier this week and that the entire process of disengagement could take weeks, if not months. Further, there are no dates which have been established for the next round of military talks which are linked to the Chinese taking some positive steps on the ground.
