India and China are learnt to have activated the “working mechanism” at the diplomatic level, which was established during former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh’s tenure in 2012 and signed by then Indian ambassador to Beijing S Jaishankar.
This has been activated alongside the military-to-military conversation taking place at the field level to “dis-engage” and “de-escalate” the situation.
The “Working Mechanism for Consultation & Coordination on India-China Border Affairs (WMCC)” was established in January 2012 after border talks between then National Security Adviser (NSA) Shivshankar Menon and his Chinese counterpart Dai Bingguo, and is headed by joint secretary-level officials from both sides. They are entrusted to help the special representative for boundary talks, a position currently held by NSA Ajit Doval.
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