A new round of border confrontation between China and India has eased through dialogue, but tensions have not been resolved. The Indian side said it needed to hold high-level talks, and the Chinese media announced on June 11 that PLA’s 76th Group Army heavy synthetic brigade deployed Type 99 main battle tank to “plateau”.
It was reported on June 11 that the Chinese media “China Youth Daily” mentioned in an article entitled “76th Group Army Heavy Synthetic Brigade in 4,200-meter Snow Plateau Resident Training” on June 11 that “from the Northwest Gobi to the snow-covered plateau ranges from a high temperature of 35 degrees Celsius to a severe cold environment of minus 9 degrees Celsius, a synthetic brigade of the 76th Army of the People’s Liberation Army moved via railway remotely to the hinterland of the Kunlun Mountains at an altitude of 4,200 meters to carry out field training and exercise hard combat skills under harsh conditions.”
The article specifically pointed out that the brigade is one of the three heavy synthetic brigades of 76th Group Army, equipped with a series of advanced weapons such as Type 99 main battle tanks, ZBD-04 infantry fighting vehicles, Type 89 122 mm self-propelled howitzers, and Red Arrow 10 (HJ-10) anti-tank missiles. After the military reform, the brigade received Type 99 tanks from other troops, and became “one of the most important armored forces for defending our country’s western border areas.”
At the same time, India and China has started a new round of military talks on June 10, and the two sides had difficult negotiations to de-escalate the ongoing army clashes along the eastern Line of Actual Control (LAC) in Ladakh since early May.