{"id":25856,"date":"2020-05-21T21:07:23","date_gmt":"2020-05-21T15:37:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kashmir.today\/india-rejects-chinas-claims-of-trespass\/"},"modified":"2020-05-21T21:07:23","modified_gmt":"2020-05-21T15:37:23","slug":"india-rejects-chinas-claims-of-trespass","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/?p=25856","title":{"rendered":"India rejects China\u2019s claims of trespass"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong><em>New Delhi says People&#8217;s Liberation Army is blocking Indian patrols in Ladakh and Sikkim.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">India on May 21 rejected China\u2019s claim that troops have trespassed into Chinese territory, and accused Chinese People&#8217;s Liberation Army troops of \u201chindering\u201d patrols by Indian soldiers. In a first such statement after weeks of a standoff between Indian and Chinese soldiers at four points along the boundary in Sikkim and Ladakh, the Ministry of External Affairs also told China that \u201cpeace and tranquillity in border areas\u201d is an \u201cessential prerequisite\u201d to developing bilateral relations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cAny suggestion that Indian troops had undertaken activity across the LAC in the Western Sector or the Sikkim sector is not accurate. Indian troops are fully familiar with the alignment of the Line of Actual Control in the India-China border areas and abide by it scrupulously,\u201d said MEA official spokesperson Anurag Srivastava. \u201cAll Indian activities are entirely on the Indian side of the LAC. In fact, it is Chinese side that has recently undertaken activity hindering India\u2019s normal patrolling patterns,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The remarks followed claims by the Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs on May 19 that Indian troops were attempting to \u201cunilaterally change\u201d the status quo at the boundary between them, and \u201cblocking\u201d patrolling by Chinese border guards.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">On May 21, the Chinese MFA issued another statement repeating the claims and said that Chinese troops \u201cfirmly\u201d dealt with what it called the Indian troops \u201ccrossover and infringement activities,\u201d while also telling the United States not to interfere in the dispute between India and China. \u201cWe urge the Indian side to work together with us, abide by our leadership\u2019s important consensus, comply with the agreements signed, refrain from unilateral actions complicating the situation,\u201d said MFA spokesperson Zhao Lijian.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>With inputs from Ananth Krishnan in Chennai; <\/em><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/news\/national\/india-rejects-chinas-claims-of-trespass\/article31643363.ece\">The Hindu<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Delhi says People&#8217;s Liberation Army is blocking Indian patrols in Ladakh and Sikkim. India on May 21 rejected China\u2019s claim that troops have trespassed into Chinese territory, and accused Chinese People&#8217;s Liberation Army troops of \u201chindering\u201d patrols by Indian soldiers. In a first such statement after weeks of a standoff between Indian and Chinese [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":18101,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25856","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-national"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25856","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=25856"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25856\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25856"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25856"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25856"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}