India and China will hold their first wargames in December as part of a series of joint exercises between the two Asian neighbours who fought a war in 1962, an official announced Wednesday.
The announcement came immediately after Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh met his Chinese counterpart on the sidelines of an Asean summit in Singapore to discuss a possible bilateral leadership meeting in Beijing.
The two million-plus armies will send around 100 combat troops each for the manoeuvres, scheduled to be held in the third week of December in China's Yunnan province, Indian defence ministry spokesman Sitanshu Kar told AFP. "The exact dates, components and equipment for the exercises will be decided next week in a meeting between the two sides in Kolkata," Kar said.