ThePrint Uninterrupted : Military option against China is last option, must exhaust everything first : NSAB’s Gen Narasimhan

Member of the National Security Advisory Board (NSAB), former Commander of 3 Corps & China expert Gen (Retd) SL Narasimhan tells ThePrint's National & Strategic Affairs editor Jyoti Malhotra that by coming across the Line of Actual Control into Indian territory in Ladakh, the Chinese were trying to change the status quo, that the scuffle occurred in the darkness between Indian and Chinese soldiers on the evening-night of 15 June, that they used maces, clubs and sticks and pelted stones at each other, that the Chinese wanted to ensure that they took control of the Galwan valley. He added that the Chinese were not objecting to the Darbuk-Shyok-Daulat Beg Oldi road but to the roads and bridges leading towards the LAC, and that India would not stop upgrading the border infrastructure on its own side of the LAC.