Indian and Chinese troops were involved in a 73-day stand-off at the Doklam tri-junction of India, Bhutan and China between June to August last year.
Military trust between China and India is crucial to bilateral relations and demands patience and sincerity from both sides, experts were quoted as saying by the daily.
PM Narendra Modi on Friday met Chinese president Xi Jinping as part of a two-day "heart-to-heart" summit in Wuhan. The prime minister held one-to-one talks with the Chinese president with focus on global, regional and bilateral issues.
Indian and Chinese troops had been locked in a stand-off for over two months last year in the Doklam area near Sikkim before "disengaging" on August 28. The area of the standoff is also claimed by Bhutan.
The report said that Chinese troops made 21 attempts to cross over to the Indian saide of the border in the last 17 days at several places between Arunachal Pradesh and Ladakh.
The Indian envoy, in an interview to South China Morning Post, had said that any attempt on part of China to change the status quo in Doklam would lead to another stand-off.
In August last year, India and China decided to end their 73-day standoff between their troops at Doklam. The standoff had strained ties considerably between the two countries.
Troops of India and China were locked in a 73-day-long standoff in Doklam from June 16 last year after the Indian side stopped the building of a road in the disputed area by the Chinese army. The face-off ended on August 28.
Menon, who was NSA between 2010 and 2014 in the previous UPA rule, also said there was a need for an integrated approach in managing the country's borders.
Wang Yi said that Beijing handled the Dokalam standoff with "restraint", showing the "emphasis" it places on ties with New Delhi.
Colonel Wu Qian, spokesman of the Chinese Ministry of Defence, claimed that Doklam is a part of China’s territory and reiterated his country’s view that India had ‘illegally trespassed’.
Justifying its stand, Beijing said that New Delhi “has no business to comment on construction activity on Chinese territory”.
MEA's remarks come in the wake of media reports about China carrying out some infrastructure development in the disputed region that Bhutan claims at its own.
In a jibe, the Congress spokesperson Randeep Singh Surhewala said that “Prime Minister has mastered the art of electoral rhetoric as he has failed miserably to ensure the protection of our borders”.
The revelation comes three days after Rawat's admission that though the Chinese have retracted from Doklam, the troops are there in northern Doklam area.
Chinese state media today said that the Indian Army “needs to tone down its hawkish rhetoric”, and that India is “diplomatically immature”.
"Met with the CPC Delegation led by Mr Meng Xiangfeng, member of the CPC Central Committee for a meaningful exchange of views," the Congress president tweeted.
When asked how Chinese military view its relations with its Indian counterpart in 2018 in the backdrop of the Doklam standoff, Col Ren said India should implement the border agreements and control its troops.
SSB is enhancing its strength and establishing new border posts in Sikkim along the Bhutan frontier, next to Doklam region.
The External Affairs Ministry said that while NSA Ajit Doval will be India's Special Representative , China will be represented by Yang Jiechi, State Councillor.
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