Jaishankar to China: It's in our common interest not to mass troops at the LAC

WITH AN estimated 50,000-60,000 troops posted on either side of the India-China border in eastern Ladakh for almost four years now, External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar said the situation is "very tense and dangerous" and it's in the common interest of both countries to not have "that many forces on the Line of Actual Control (LAC)". Jaishankar was speaking at the Express Adda held in New Delhi on Monday evening, where he was in conversation with Anant Goenka, Executive Director, The Indian Express Group, and C Raja Mohan, Contributing Editor, The Indian Express. Responding to a question by Zhou Yongsheng,…