India
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New Delhi, Jan 23: India too “can be aggressive” if China tries to get aggressive along the Line of Actual Control (LAC), asserted Indian Air Force chief Marshal RKS Bhadauria on Saturday amid border standoff with Beijing.
“If they (China) can get aggressive, we will also get aggressive. We have full preparations (to meet any eventuality,)” the IAF chief said during a media interaction at Jodhpur.
The statement cames a day ahead of the ninth round of military talks with China to defuse border tensions in Ladakh.
There have been 8 rounds of talks, but both sides have not been able to work out a solution as yet.
India and China are locked in a border dispute since May last year. Tensions were further escalated after the Galwan Valley clash in which 20 Indian soldiers were martyred and an equal…