New Delhi: The primary focus of India at the Line of Actual Control is disengagement before de-escalation as China is our number one enemy, not Pakistan, Chief of Defence Staff General Bipin Rawat said on Thursday.
“First issue is disengagement, then de-escalation. The focus is to go back to our original positions prior to April 2020. Equal time and distance separation is paramount, but because their infrastructure is better than ours for time, we are stressing on pull-back of equal distance,” CDS Rawat told Rahul Shivshankar, Editor-in-Chief, Times Now, and Editorial Director, at Times Now Summit 2021.
General Rawat also said that reports claiming that the Chinese have entered Indian territory in the Northeast and built a village are not true.
“It is just that their old infrastructure is being redeveloped along the LAC on their side. I would not call it ‘muscle flexing’. We are noticing permanent structures on the Chinese side, so if we have to be permanently there, so be it,” he said.
Giving a peek into the talks over the LAC standoff, the CDS said that India is “well prepared for any misadventure, and are stocked up for a long winter”.
“Should the Chinese carry out a Galwan again, they will get the same response. Troops from both sides are closer than other areas in Demchok and Depsang Plains, but there is nothing to be worried about right now,” Rawat said.
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