India must insist on a return to status quo of April 2020 in talks with China, says Shyam Saran

Two years after the Galwan clashes on June 15-16, 2020 , in which 20 Indian soldiers and at least four Chinese soldiers and possibly more, were killed, the government says it has still not ascertained why China amassed its troops in such large numbers at the border, despite 15 rounds of military talks at the Line of Actual Control and 10 rounds of the Working Mechanism for Consultation and Coordination (WMCC) on India-China Border Affairs official-level talks. In a conversation with The Hindu 's Suhasini Haidar, former Chairman of the National Security Advisory Board (NSAB) and author of the new…