Army chief General Bikram Singh will visit China in the first week of July and will hold discussions with his counterpart on the entire gamut of confidence building measures on the line of Actual Control (lAC) besides frequent transgressions by Chinese Army into India.
Singh is the second Army chief to visit China since 2005 when the then chief General NC Vij traveled there. Singh’s visit comes at a time when the two countries have expressed keenness to improve ties between their armies through increased contacts in the form of visits and joint exercises between them.The contacts between armies of the two countries have grown in the past few years and the two armies will hold their fourth joint military exercise in November this year.The Chinese Defence Minister is also expected to visit India by the end of this year as a reciprocal visit, as last year the Indian Defence Minister had visited that country.