China, India taking actions to ease border situation – Chinese foreign ministry

China's foreign ministry said on Thursday that China and India are "taking appropriate actions to ease the border situation". The remarks came a day after Indian and Chinese military commanders made progress in talks to defuse the standoff. According to Indian officials, the two armies have thinned out some forces, but soldiers, tanks and other armored carriers remain heavily deployed in the high-altitude region.

Hundreds of soldiers have been ranged against each other in the remote snow desert of Ladakh since April in the most serious border flare-ups for years after Chinese patrols advanced into what India deems its side of the de facto border, Indian officials have said. China claims the territory to be its own and has objected to the Indian construction of roads in the area.