It was never about Pangong Tso

 It was always about Depsang.

All the posturing, all the skirmishes, the wails and the meetings. 

I felt it then and feel it now The entire posturing is to secure protection for its North Karokaram highway.

And the best way to do it is to cut of Dault Beg Oldie from the rest of Ladakh, somewhere north of the Galwan River on the DS-DBO road.

I think that the Chinese are going to cut off Depsang by November