{"id":22637,"date":"2020-09-11T13:45:22","date_gmt":"2020-09-11T04:45:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/sep\/11\/china-and-india-agree-to-disengage-at-disputed-border"},"modified":"2020-09-11T13:45:22","modified_gmt":"2020-09-11T04:45:22","slug":"china-and-india-agree-to-disengage-at-disputed-border","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=22637","title":{"rendered":"China and India agree to disengage at disputed border"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Foreign ministers issue joint statement after meeting in Moscow, promising to \u2018avoid actions that may escalate the situation\u2019 <\/p>\n<p>India and China have agreed to \u201cdisengage as soon as possible\u201d after troops were involved in a series of clashes at their disputed Himalayan border, according to a joint statement from the two countries.<\/p>\n<p>The nuclear-armed neighbours accused each other this week of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/sep\/08\/china-india-border-soldiers-pangong-lake\">firing shots across the contested border<\/a> in Ladakh, known as the line of actual control (LAC), intensifying a months-long standoff that has already claimed at least 20 lives.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/sep\/11\/china-and-india-agree-to-disengage-at-disputed-border\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Foreign ministers issue joint statement after meeting in Moscow, promising to \u2018avoid actions that may escalate the situation\u2019 India and China have agreed to \u201cdisengage as soon as possible\u201d after troops were involved in a series of clashes at their disp&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":260,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[50,62,61],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22637","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-china","category-india","category-south-and-central-asia"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22637","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/260"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22637"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22637\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22638,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22637\/revisions\/22638"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22637"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22637"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22637"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}