{"id":214774,"date":"2022-11-17T19:15:30","date_gmt":"2022-11-17T13:45:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=214774"},"modified":"2022-11-17T19:15:30","modified_gmt":"2022-11-17T13:45:30","slug":"india-deploys-new-docks-upgrades-speedboats-for-pangong-tso-patrol","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/india-deploys-new-docks-upgrades-speedboats-for-pangong-tso-patrol\/","title":{"rendered":"India deploys new docks, upgrades speedboats for Pangong Tso patrol"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><b>Source: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The post is based on the article<\/span><b> \u201cIndia deploys new docks, upgrades speedboats for Pangong Tso patrol\u201d <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">published in<\/span><b> The Hindu <\/b>on<b> 17th November 2022<\/b><\/p>\n<h5><b>What is the News?<\/b><\/h5>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Indian Army has deployed new landing docks and speedboats for patrolling on the Pangong Tso in eastern Ladakh, matching the Chinese deployments on the lake.<\/span><\/p>\n<h5><b>About Pangong Tso Lake<\/b><\/h5>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/importance-of-ladakhs-pangong-tso-lake\/\"><b>Click Here to read<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n<h5><b>What has been the point of friction between India and China at <\/b><b>Pangong Tso lake?<\/b><\/h5>\n<figure id=\"attachment_214775\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-214775\" style=\"width: 354px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-214775\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/Master.jpg?resize=354%2C199&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Pangong Tso Lake\" width=\"354\" height=\"199\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/Master.jpg?w=1920&amp;ssl=1 1920w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/Master.jpg?resize=300%2C169&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/Master.jpg?resize=1024%2C576&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/Master.jpg?resize=768%2C432&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/Master.jpg?resize=1536%2C864&amp;ssl=1 1536w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/Master.jpg?resize=1568%2C882&amp;ssl=1 1568w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 354px) 100vw, 354px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-214775\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Source: Indian Express<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Pangong Tso Lake has been an area of constant friction between India and China for a long time.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">India holds about one-third of the 135-km-long lake while the rest is under China\u2019s control.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The lake has mountain spurs of the Chang Chenmo range jutting down referred to as \u2018fingers\u2019.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">India and China have a different understandings of where the Line of Actual Control(LAC) passes through.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">India has maintained that the LAC passes through Finger 8, which has been the site of the final military post of China. But Indian forces have not had active control beyond Finger 4.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">On the other hand, China says the LAC passes through Finger 2. It has been patrolling up to Finger 4 mostly in light vehicles and at times up to Finger 2.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: The post is based on the article \u201cIndia deploys new docks, upgrades speedboats for Pangong Tso patrol\u201d published in The Hindu on 17th November 2022 What is the News? The Indian Army has deployed new landing docks and speedboats for patrolling on the Pangong Tso in eastern Ladakh, matching the Chinese deployments on the&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/india-deploys-new-docks-upgrades-speedboats-for-pangong-tso-patrol\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">India deploys new docks, upgrades speedboats for Pangong Tso patrol<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10317,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1566,164,9],"tags":[10498],"class_list":["post-214774","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-factly-articles","category-international-relations-daily-factly-articles","category-public","tag-the-hindu","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":6,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1698376814},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214774","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10317"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=214774"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214774\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=214774"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=214774"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=214774"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}