Army monitoring Chinese activities on Doklam: Defence Ministry report.
Sino-India Relations Including Doklam Border Situation and Cooperation in International Organizations.
Donglong(Doklam) always belonged to China
and is always under China's effective jurisdiction.
Despite Doklam, India-China bilateral trade hit historic
high of $84.44 billion in 2017.
The prime minister went recently to China and didn't discuss Doklam with them.
In Doklam, the 73-day face off could have ended in a bloody fight.
Had India remained weak, the Doklam standoff would not have been resolved till now.
After the 73-day stand-off at Doklam, Indian doesn't want to add fuel to the fire.
With the Doklam dust now settled,
India and China have a complex power equation to manage.
We understand that the standoff in the Doklam area has been ongoing for nearly two months.
Bose had asked if the Doklam issue had figured during Modi's interactions with the Chinese President.
The Chinese military changed the status quo in the Doklam area and therefore India reacted to it.
Geng also sought to justify
China's road building, saying that it is not part of the Doklam area.
Worsening matters, the Doklam standoff also impeded crucial military
confidence-building measures between the Indian Army and China's People's Liberation.
China's army is sitting in Doklam and he will not utter a word on Doklam in China,
you just watch.
After last year's stand-off in Doklam, India and China have
stepped up dialogue at various levels to reset the ties.
An incident like the Doklam standoff
or summits such as BRICS are unlikely to dissuade President Xi from pursuing his‘China Dream'.
The Doklam crisis must be taken into the full context of 2017,
a year that witnessed several downturns in Sino-Indian relations.
India and China have agreed to withdraw their troops from Doklam after being in a standoff for over two months.
China has said its army is ready for a military conflict with India,
whose troops are on its territory in Doklam.
Sources said China
has been keeping its troops in north Doklam and significantly ramping up its infrastructure in the disputed area.
After the tri-junction in Doklam in the Sikkim sector,
this is the most important tri-junction along the Sino-India border,” he said.
To understand the Doklam face-off, you have to look at China's supreme
leader Mao Zedong's‘right hand palm and five fingers' strategy.
Responding to questions on the impasse in Doklam, Li said,“What the PLA will do
depends on the actions of the Indian side.
Beijing also said India was"misleading" its citizens by saying that Doklam is located at the tri-junction of India, Bhutan, and China.
Lu repeated China's assertion that Donglang- which he called Doklam- was part of Chinese territory“since ancient times
and it doesn't belong to Bhutan”.
Responding to questions on the present impasse in Doklam, he said,“What the PLA will do depends
on the actions of the Indian side.
Following the disengagement on August 28, 2017,
after a 72-day standoff at Doklam, Indian
and Chinese troops were redeployed away from their respective positions.