Bhutan-China border talks deal not to involve Trijunction with IndiaAs per a 2012 understanding between the special representatives of India and China, any trijunction will be resolved in consultation with a...
16 Oct, 2021, 12.00 AM IST
China outreach to Bhutan poses fresh challenge to IndiaChina’s Bhutan outreach poses a significant foreign policy challenge for India in the neighbourhood, not least because the new government i...
30 Jan, 2019, 06.17 PM IST
Bhutan king’s India visit reaffirms ties, sends signal to ChinaWhile Bhutan needs to reaffirm special security ties with India, Delhi on its part needs to strengthen establishment in Thimphu amid China’...
13 Jul, 2018, 11.19 AM IST
Ajit Doval to explore ways to end border standoff ahead of PM Narendra Modi's visitHowever, any formula for ending the impasse in near future seems unlikely amid hardening of Chinese position on the Indo-Bhutan-China triju...
13 Jul, 2018, 10.31 AM IST
Border row: China says India 'trampled' on PanchsheelBeijing also said India was "misleading" its citizens by saying that Doklam is located at the tri-junction of India, Bhutan, and China.
13 Jul, 2018, 10.28 AM IST
No dispute with Bhutan in Doklam: China"I can say that we have been stressing that Doklam belongs to China since ancient times. It was under the effective jurisdiction of China w...
13 Jul, 2018, 10.27 AM IST
India sidesteps China's bid to delink Dokalam from Special Representative talksAccording to SR mechanism, the trijunction border has to be settled trilaterally though India and China have not held any discussion with B...
12 Jul, 2018, 11.30 AM IST
Ajit Doval, Yang Jiechi hold talks amid Sikkim standoffHis visit has raised expectations about the likelihood of India and China finding a solution to the over a month-long standoff at Doklam ar...
12 Jul, 2018, 11.22 AM IST
Doklam row: 'India lodged protests with China from the very beginning'Beijing has been claiming that since the boundary between the two neighbours at Sikkim Sector had already been delimited by the 1890 conven...
12 Jul, 2018, 11.14 AM IST
Dokalam standoff: No easy answers as China quotes 1890, India 2012 pactSince 2012, India and China have not held any talks on area. The Chinese action in Dokalam is, therefore, an attempt to bypass India in the...
12 Jul, 2018, 11.10 AM IST
China claiming sizeable Bhutan territory, Jawaharlal Nehru tells Zhu Enlai in his 1959 letterIn the letter, Nehru wrote that India is the only competent authority to take up with other Governments matters concerning Bhutan's externa...
12 Jul, 2018, 10.41 AM IST
India including tri-junction in standoff out of 'ulterior motives': China"The so-called tri-junction point as the name implies is a point instead of a line or an area," Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Geng Shu...
12 Jul, 2018, 10.37 AM IST
Talks on Sikkim sector row only after India withdraws troops: China"The diplomatic channels for the communication between Chinese and Indian sides remained unimpeded," Chinese Foreign Ministry said.
12 Jul, 2018, 10.34 AM IST
India to host Bhutanese king Jigme Khesar Namgyel WangchuckThe King's trip will be a reaffrimation of Indo-Bhutan ties amid relentless pressure by Beijing to make inroads into Bhutan including estab...
31 Oct, 2017, 09.50 AM IST
Dokalam II reflects Xi Jinping’s home, global game plansIndia’s growing alliances in Indo-Pacific region and with USA to rebalance China’s aggression is viewed as an obstacle by the Chinese regim...
09 Oct, 2017, 06.44 AM IST
Government has taken correct step in tri-junction: Shivshankar Menon“India is very clear in telling China to maintain the status quo. I think that’s a very logical stand..We know each other’s stand very well...
22 Jul, 2017, 08.10 AM IST
Indo-China border row: India of 2017 different from India of 1962, says Arun JaitleyHitting at China, which asserted that India should learn from the experience of 1962 War, Defence Minister Arun Jaitley on Friday claimed t...
01 Jul, 2017, 12.20 AM IST