India and China will hold the joint army exercise ‘Hand in Hand’ in Umroi near Shillong from December 7 to 20. The two countries will field 100 soldiers each and they will practice counter-terrorism drills in urban and rural setting. This is the seventh edition of the joint exercise which is part of confidence building measure between the two countries which share a disputed border of more than 4,000 km.
The exercise could not take place in 2017 due to standoff in Doklam plateau near Sikkim when the two armies were engaged in a face off lasting 70 days. The stand-off took place after the Indian Army protested against the construction of a road in the region considered strategically important for the country. Intervention by the top diplomatic channels and political leadership of India later defused the situation.
The last edition was held in 2018 in Chengdu province of China after Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Chinese President Xi Jinping, in April 2018, had held an informal summit at Wuhan to improve relations between the two countries.
The latest exercise will be spread over 15 days wherein the troops will also conduct joint firing practice besides improving jointmanship and understanding the operational philosophy of each other’s armies, sources said here on Monday.
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