Febuary 15, 2021

Indian media reported that the Chinese People’s Liberation Army (PLA) had withdrawn more than 200 main battle tanks from Pangong Tso and used more than 100 heavy vehicles to ferry the troops by Thursday. 

Chinese experts said the massive withdrawal shows Beijing’s sincerity for peace and border stability, at the same time showcasing the country’s increasingly growing defense capability. In other words, the PLA has the ability to withdraw this many forces in one day, but also can replenish that much in a single day, the experts noted. 

Qian Feng, director of the research department at the National Strategy Institute at Tsinghua University, told the Global Times on Monday that the “simultaneous disengagement” of the two countries’ troops, will take about two weeks, but he warned that the possibility of a slight delay of the withdrawal by Indian troops, using “technical reasons” could not be ruled out.

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