India and China have agreed to hold weekly talks in the Working Mechanism for Consultation and Coordination (WMCC) meeting to resolve the ongoing dispute in Eastern Ladakh after the People’s Liberation Army (PLA) amassed over 10,000 troops along the Line of Actual Control (LAC) there.

Top government sources told India Today TV that the two sides have decided hold talks at the WMCC meeting, like the one that was held through video conferencing last week and was headed by an official from the Ministry of External Affairs.

The talks with the Chinese side will help in further disengagement and de-escalation of the situation along the borders with China, the sources said.

India and China have been locked in a dispute over the boundary issues following Chinese incursion at multiple locations including the Galwan valley, where they were involved in a violent face-off which resulted in heavy casualties to both sides.

The officials said the Chinese side has been in denial mode over the death of its troops, including its commanding officer, in one of the most fierce confrontations between the two sides in the last 45 years.

Sources said that the Chinese, during the talks, had come up with maps of 1959 and 1960 to suggest that the LAC should be aligned between the two countries on the basis of those. During the talks, the Chinese also tried to squarely blame India by suggesting that Beijing had sorted out its disputes with four countries with whom it shares land borders but it has had problems in doing so with India. The charge was plainly rejected by the Indian side, sources said.

The Indian side also rejected the Chinese allegations wherein it tried to use the Nepal-India issue over Kalapani area saying that India was indulging in an expansionist policy and told its officials about the Chineses designs in Ladakh and many other countries with which it is facing issues.