India-China face-off on 15th day

Chinas military today rejected Bhutans allegation that PLA soldiers violated its territory, saying its troops operated on "Chinese territory" and also asked India to "correct" its "wrong doing". "I have to correct when you say Chinese personnel entered ...

New Delhi: China's aggressive postures in the Doklam Plateau is but a scene setter for the 19th National Congress of the Communist Party of China in which President Xi Jinping is expected to be crowned as the undisputed strong leader of the nation with his ...

As the standoff between Chinese and Indian troops over road construction on the borders of a 269-sq km plateau in Bhutan worsened on 30 June, India finally reacted to the Chinese provocation. “India is deeply concerned at the recent Chinese ...

This has the diplomatic community in Beijing worried, and some have conveyed this message to their Indian counterparts in Beijing and Bhutanese counterparts in New Delhi. Last month, Indian troops blocked Chinese road works in Doklam and have since been in a ...

'When sensitive territory goes into the hands of your enemy. he becomes more powerful in military terms.''Assuming the Chinese take over the Doklam Plateau they will not stop at that.''They will keep ingressing, and it will be easier for them to further expand their territory.''I feel the Chinese will vacate that area in two months after it begins to snow.' Lieutenant General Dr D B Shekatkar (retd), PVSM, AVSM, AVSM, was in charge of the entire China front in Arunachal Pradesh during the ...

Following the latest confrontation between China and India in the Doklam area of Bhutan, there is clearly an edge to the repeated Chinese calls to India to ‘immediately pull back’ Indian troops to their side of the boundary. The Chinese have ...

Amid the standoff between India and China at the border tri-junction with Bhutan, Congress today said party vice president Rahul Gandhi has met the ambassadors of the neighbouring countries. The party downplayed the meeting and did not specify its venue or ...

'The Chinese forces in the narrow Chumbi Valley are currently in the line of sight and fire of Indian forces poised on the ridges along the Sikkim-Tibet border.''Aware of this vulnerability, the Chinese have been eyeing the Doklam plateau,' explains national security expert Nitin A Gokhale. As the military stand-off over Doka La (or the Doklam plateau) between India and China spills over into its second month, it is important to understand both the military and geo-strategic reasons behind ...

[Bhutan], July 2 (ANI): Criticising China for constructing a road inside Bhutanese territory, residents here have stated that this action by Beijing could lead to war and cautioned the latter not to transgress Bhutan's territorial integrity and sovereignty.