India, China to hold military talks on Sunday

India and China will hold the ninth round of military talks on Sunday to defuse the border standoff in eastern Ladakh, sources in the defence ministry said.

The corps commander-level talks will be held at Moldo on the Chinese side of the Line of Actual Control.

Indian and Chinese troops have been locked in a face-off at multiple points — the Pangong Lake, Hot Springs and the Depsang Plains — since May last year.

Eight rounds of military talks so far have failed to find a breakthrough.