New Delhi: India and China have held two rounds of Corps Commander-level talks in the Eastern Sector in the first week of September, including a meeting Monday, amid continuing tensions in the general area of Arunachal Pradesh’s Taksing.
Addressing the weekly press conference here, Ministry of External Affairs spokesperson Randhir Jaiswal said the meeting happened pursuant to the understandings reached between the Special Representatives of India and China in August 2025 and August 2026, and subsequent discussions at the Working Mechanism for Consultation and Coordination (WMCC) meetings held in Beijing and New Delhi in May and August 2026 respectively.
“The first Senior Highest Military Commander-Level Flag Meeting was held at Wacha on the Indian side in Arunachal Pradesh on 6 September and Damai on the Chinese side on 7 September 2026. A similar mechanism also exists in the Western Sector,” he said responding to a question.
He did not reveal details of what exactly transpired at the meeting.
The Indian delegation was headed by Lieutenant General Girish Kalia, commander of the 3 Corps (Spear Corps), headquartered in Rangapahar near Dimapur in Nagaland.
This is the first set of Corps Commander-level meetings that have taken place in the Eastern Sector, a practice that was established in the Western sector in 2020 following the Galwan clash.
Such a mechanism has now also been agreed upon for the middle sector.
ThePrint had on 27 August reported that India and China are set to significantly expand their military communication architecture along the Line of Actual Control (LAC), with two new hotlines and two additional meeting points being established in the Eastern and Central sectors.
The decisions were among the outcomes of the recent meeting between National Security Adviser (NSA) Ajit Doval and Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi, who are the Special Representatives of India and China for the boundary question.
The meeting in the Eastern Sector comes weeks after the situation in the Taksing area of Arunachal Pradesh.
ThePrint had reported on 11 August that the first round of faceoff happened late July when Indian and Chinese patrol parties came face to face in an area called Taksing, the remote border village in Upper Subansiri district abutting the Tibet–China region.
The incident is said to have happened some 2.5 km inside the LAC. The usual banner protocol, under which both sides claim they are in their area, was carried out and the Chinese pulled back.
However, it is learnt that the Chinese came back in early August. India has also taken tactical steps to ensure parity in tactics and strength.
(Edited by Viny Mishra)
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