India and China have been locked in a face-off in the Doklam area of the Sikkim sector since June 16 after Indian troops stopped the Chinese People's Liberation Army from building a road in the area.
China claimed it was constructing the road within its territory, and has been demanding immediate pull-out of the Indian troops.
China has repeatedly said the withdrawal of troops from Doklam was the precondition for any "meaningful dialogue" with India over the festering border row in the Sikkim section of the border.
China has told the foreign diplomats in Beijing that troops of the People’s Liberation Army (PLA) have been waiting patiently at the plateau, but will not wait for an indefinite period
This is the first time China has clearly articulated – through one of its primary official channels – that there is no room for parleys to resolve the month-long impasse in Donglang, which is under China’s control but claimed by Bhutan
External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj has called an all-party meeting in New Delhi tomorrow over the month-long border face-off between India and China at the Sikkim border
India and China have been engaged in a standoff in the Dokalam area near the Bhutan trijunction for the past 19 days after a Chinese Army's construction party came to build a road.
Chinese Embassy in New Delhi alleged that Beijing was forced to halt the entry of Indian pilgrims to Kailash Mansarovar through the Nathu La pass after Indian troops “crossed into Chinese territory”.
India said that the border standoff between armies of India and China at the Sikkim sector can be resolved diplomatically and Chinese soldiers should leave the Bhutanese territory to reduce tension in the area
"In fact, Chinese maps show sizable areas of Bhutan as part of Tibet," he added," Nehru wrote to Zhou Enlai in 1955.
Dismissing as "untenable" India's assertion that Beijing's construction of road in the disputed Doka La area poses "serious security implications", China's official news agency today asked New Delhi not to deviate consensus on developing bilateral re
India has pushed in more troops in a "non-combative mode" to strengthen its position in Doka La amid standoff with the Chinese Army.
Of the 3,488-km-long India-China border from Jammu and Kashmir to Arunachal Pradesh, a 220-km section falls in Sikkim.
The Kailash Mansarovar yatra through Nathu La has been cancelled, an official said today.
India said on Friday that it has told China that the building of a road by Chinese troops in a border region will have "serious security implications."
Rawat was apprised about the tense situation on the border at the Army's 17 Mountain Division even as China warned that the Indian Army should learn "historical lessons", in an oblique reference to the 1962 war.
The deployment of the tanks expands the Tibet-based unit and has increased their fighting power.
Of the 3,488-km-long India-China border from Jammu and Kashmir to Arunachal Pradesh, a 220-km section falls in Sikkim.
Chinese People's Liberation Army (PLA) personnel breached the Line of Actual Control (LAC) in the Sikkim sector and destroyed two makeshift Indian Army bunkers earlier this month in Lalten area of Doka La sector.
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