{"id":28472,"date":"2020-06-25T07:22:24","date_gmt":"2020-06-25T01:52:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kashmir.today\/?p=28472"},"modified":"2020-06-25T07:22:24","modified_gmt":"2020-06-25T01:52:24","slug":"beijing-has-sovereignty-over-galwan-valley-chinese-defence-ministry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/?p=28472","title":{"rendered":"Beijing has sovereignty over Galwan Valley: Chinese Defence Ministry"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n\n\n<p>The Chinese statement mentioned the exchange of \u201ccandid and in-depth\u201d views on the border situation and how both sides should earnestly implement the \u201cimportant consensus\u201d reached between the Foreign Ministers during their June 17 phone conversation, and \u201cactively cooperate\u201d with the armed forces to implement outcomes reached at the June 6 and June 22 military talks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n<p>The Chinese Defence Ministry, however, struck a jarring note, echoing Beijing\u2019s claim to the Galwan Valley. \u201cChina has sovereignty over the Galwan Valley region and the Chinese border troops have been patrolling and on duty in this region for many years,\u201d it said. This is the first time that the Chinese armed forces have staked claim to an area that India says is well within its territory.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>With inputs from <a href=\"https:\/\/indianexpress.com\/article\/india\/india-china-border-news-live-updates-galwan-ladakh-6473414\/\">The Indian Express<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Chinese statement mentioned the exchange of \u201ccandid and in-depth\u201d views on the border situation and how both sides should earnestly implement the \u201cimportant consensus\u201d reached between the Foreign Ministers during their June 17 phone conversation, and \u201cactively cooperate\u201d with the armed forces to implement outcomes reached at the June 6 and June 22 military [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":25759,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28472","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-union-territory"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28472","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=28472"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28472\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28472"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28472"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28472"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}