Context:
India and China “positively affirmed” the outcome of their disengagement agreement on the Line of Actual Control (LAC), as National Security Adviser Ajit Doval met with Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi in Beijing on Wednesday for the first boundary talks between the Special Representatives (SRs) since 2019.
The Line of Actual Control (LAC)
The LAC is the actual line of control separating the part of Indian territory from that of China. The line is drawn with the 1962 Sino-Indian war.
Some remarks about the LAC:
- No accord formally exists between the two nations on the LAC.
- No map or physical demarcation denotes the LAC.
- The difference between the LAC and the borders claimed by each country is as per Sino-Indian border dispute.
- India believes it has 3,488 km long LAC, and to China, the distance is only about 2,000 km in length.
- The LAC has generally been segregated into three sectors: western, middle, and eastern.
