China-india Border Standoff Sikkim Sector

Home Minister Rajnath Singh said today that a solution to the ongoing stand-off between India and China at Doklam would be found soon and hoped that Beijing would make a positive move in this regard. He was speaking at a function of the Indo-Tibetan Border Police or ITBP in New Delhi.

The United States has said that it wants India and China to sit down and have a direct dialogue to resolve their issues.

Expressing concern over the Doklam standoff between India and China, an influential US lawmaker has accused Beijing of taking provocative steps that have resulted in the escalation of tensions between the two Asian giants.

Notwithstanding the Doklam standoff, Chinese military analysts have said that India and China should sign a new boundary convention in the Sikkim sector to replace the 1890 agreement and make it more contemporary.

Amid the border standoff with China, Defence Minister Arun Jaitley today said that the Indian armed forces are strong enough to meet any challenge to the country's security as he underlined that lessons have been learnt from the 1962 war.

The India-China standoff at Doklam in the Sikkim sector is "not a very serious" issue, the Dalai Lama said today, stressing that the two countries have to live side by side.

Rejecting India's suggestion for a simultaneous withdrawal of troops to end the standoff at Doklam, China on Tuesday upped the ante, wondering what New Delhi would do if it "enters" Kalapani region in Uttarakhand or Kashmir.

China is unlikely to gain from the border standoff with India as the road being built by it in the Sikkim sector's Doklam area leads to nowhere and the move would push India closer to the US and Japan, an American expert said on Friday.

An article in China's state-run Global Times today accused the United States and other countries of trying to escalate the China-India standoff in the Sikkim sector to replicate the "South China Sea trick" and seek strategic benefits.

Ahead of National Security Advisor Ajit Doval's visit, China's state media struck two different notes with the China Daily hopeful of a peaceful resolution to the deadlock with India while the Global Times said the "main schemer's" trip wouldn't sway Beijing.

China's defence ministry on Monday warned India not to harbour any illusions about the Chinese military's ability to defend its territory amid the simmering border dispute at Sikkim.

Amid the ongoing standoff between Indian and Chinese troops at the Dokalam area in the Sikkim sector, a former US diplomat has said that China needs to acknowledge that India is "a force to be reckoned with" and other countries in the region are unsettled by Beijing's behaviour.

Home Minister Rajnath Singh said today that a solution to the ongoing stand-off between India and China at Doklam would be found soon and hoped that Beijing would make a positive move in this regard. He was speaking at a function of the Indo-Tibetan Border Police or ITBP in New Delhi.

The United States has said that it wants India and China to sit down and have a direct dialogue to resolve their issues.

Expressing concern over the Doklam standoff between India and China, an influential US lawmaker has accused Beijing of taking provocative steps that have resulted in the escalation of tensions between the two Asian giants.

Notwithstanding the Doklam standoff, Chinese military analysts have said that India and China should sign a new boundary convention in the Sikkim sector to replace the 1890 agreement and make it more contemporary.

Amid the border standoff with China, Defence Minister Arun Jaitley today said that the Indian armed forces are strong enough to meet any challenge to the country's security as he underlined that lessons have been learnt from the 1962 war.

The India-China standoff at Doklam in the Sikkim sector is "not a very serious" issue, the Dalai Lama said today, stressing that the two countries have to live side by side.

Rejecting India's suggestion for a simultaneous withdrawal of troops to end the standoff at Doklam, China on Tuesday upped the ante, wondering what New Delhi would do if it "enters" Kalapani region in Uttarakhand or Kashmir.

China is unlikely to gain from the border standoff with India as the road being built by it in the Sikkim sector's Doklam area leads to nowhere and the move would push India closer to the US and Japan, an American expert said on Friday.

An article in China's state-run Global Times today accused the United States and other countries of trying to escalate the China-India standoff in the Sikkim sector to replicate the "South China Sea trick" and seek strategic benefits.

Ahead of National Security Advisor Ajit Doval's visit, China's state media struck two different notes with the China Daily hopeful of a peaceful resolution to the deadlock with India while the Global Times said the "main schemer's" trip wouldn't sway Beijing.

China's defence ministry on Monday warned India not to harbour any illusions about the Chinese military's ability to defend its territory amid the simmering border dispute at Sikkim.

Amid the ongoing standoff between Indian and Chinese troops at the Dokalam area in the Sikkim sector, a former US diplomat has said that China needs to acknowledge that India is "a force to be reckoned with" and other countries in the region are unsettled by Beijing's behaviour.