Timing of incursions shown high level of coordination. China's move int the Galwan Valley, Pangong Lake area and several other spots along the Line of Actual Control, starting in early May, were likely planned for months and followed a new mobilisation order issued by President Xi Jimping , according to assessments of Indian Officials. Several Chinese incursions across the LAC took place almost simultaneously in location several hundred kilometres apart- some even hours apart on same day - leading to skirmishes in early and mid May. The timing of the incidents suggested a high level of coordination and planing, the officials said. In Galwan Valley and Pangong Lake, the Peoples's Liberation Army's deployments appeared to have been aimed at pushing India back from the LAC and redrawing it to more closely align with China's officials boarders. A buffer zone tht both sides have temporarily agreed to in Galwan has, on China's insistence, been structured around Beijing's new LAC perception, shifting the line around 1 km west. In Pangong Lake, China has thinned its presence from its LAC perception at Finger 4 but moved only Finger 5 , still much deeper inside from the Indian claims line at Finger 8 which is about 8 km from Finger 4. Starting in late January and early February, the PLA routine mobilisation for annual exercises in Xinjinang, which borders Ladakh. This year, however, in major departure from the earlier annual exercise, PLA troops that uses to train far inside their territory.