<p>Armies of India and China will on each other in an exercise that witnessed ups and downs since its inception eight years ago.<br /><br /></p>.<p>The fifth edition of the India-China military training exercise, “Hand-in-Hand” is scheduled to commence on October 12 at Kunming, the capital of southwestern China’s Yunnan province. The mock war drill would continue for 12 days.<br /><br />Indian troops from 2 Naga regiment would participate in the exercise that would focus on counter-insurgency and disaster relief operations, said an Army officer. A total of 144 people from southwestern China’s Chengdu Military Command will join their Indian counterparts for the drill.<br /><br />The Hand-in-Hand series of exercise began in 2007 as one of the confidence building measures between the two militaries that fought with each other in 1962.<br /><br />But the annual drill was suspended after the first two editions in Kunming (2007) and Belagavi (2008), because of a raging diplomatic row on the visa issue, compounded by border frictions. The annual war-game resumed in 2013 when troops from two sides were engaged in the drill in Chengdu in Sichuan province.<br /><br />The 2014 edition of the company-level exercise was held at Aundh in Pune where two sides shared the drills and practices learnt while tackling insurgency and terrorism besides honing their basic military exercises.<br /><br />This time, the exercise will lay emphasis on joint handling of insurgency at sub-unit level while issues related to humanitarian assistance and disaster relief will be discussed at formation headquarters level.<br /><br />In a military-diplomacy balance, Indian Navy would exercise with the US and Japanese navies in the Bay of Bengal almost same time.<br /></p>
<p>Armies of India and China will on each other in an exercise that witnessed ups and downs since its inception eight years ago.<br /><br /></p>.<p>The fifth edition of the India-China military training exercise, “Hand-in-Hand” is scheduled to commence on October 12 at Kunming, the capital of southwestern China’s Yunnan province. The mock war drill would continue for 12 days.<br /><br />Indian troops from 2 Naga regiment would participate in the exercise that would focus on counter-insurgency and disaster relief operations, said an Army officer. A total of 144 people from southwestern China’s Chengdu Military Command will join their Indian counterparts for the drill.<br /><br />The Hand-in-Hand series of exercise began in 2007 as one of the confidence building measures between the two militaries that fought with each other in 1962.<br /><br />But the annual drill was suspended after the first two editions in Kunming (2007) and Belagavi (2008), because of a raging diplomatic row on the visa issue, compounded by border frictions. The annual war-game resumed in 2013 when troops from two sides were engaged in the drill in Chengdu in Sichuan province.<br /><br />The 2014 edition of the company-level exercise was held at Aundh in Pune where two sides shared the drills and practices learnt while tackling insurgency and terrorism besides honing their basic military exercises.<br /><br />This time, the exercise will lay emphasis on joint handling of insurgency at sub-unit level while issues related to humanitarian assistance and disaster relief will be discussed at formation headquarters level.<br /><br />In a military-diplomacy balance, Indian Navy would exercise with the US and Japanese navies in the Bay of Bengal almost same time.<br /></p>