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Explain the defence and foreign policy options of India to address the challenges emerging out of the current India-China standoff at the Line of Actual Control (LAC).

  • UPSC 2020
  • 20 marks
  • India and the Global Centres of Power

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From April 2020 the PLA moved simultaneously at Pangong Tso, Galwan, Gogra–Hot Springs, Depsang and Demchok, and on 15 June 2020 twenty Indian soldiers died at Galwan. This planned, multi-axis change of the status quo broke the CBM regime of 1993–2013 and the 1988 bargain that kept the boundary apart from the wider relationship. India's…

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  • Evaluation
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