Opinion: India-China standoff comes to an end?
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Chinese spokesperson Hua Chunying has confirmed in a press conference that the two months standoff has come to an end, with India withdrawing its troops from the Bhutan territory.
The China India border standoff is the military border standoff between India’s and China’s armed forces for the extension of a road in Doklam. On June 16, 2017, the Chinese troops started extending an existing road in Doklam. Doklam is a an area claimed by India and China and India’s ally Bhutan as well. Around 270 Indian troops entered Doklam with weapons and bulldozers on June 18, 2017, to stop the Chinese troops from constructing the road.
On the 28th August, media sources in India claimed that the dispute has been resolved with both sides withdrawing their military forces. The Indian Ministry of External Affairs and the Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs each released statements stating that the situation had been resolved. One day after the troops backed off, China’s army has warned India to “draw lessons from the stand off.”
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Though India has resolved this in a better way by removing it’s troops from Doklam, previous incidents of territorial disputes in China, including the one with Philippines in 2012 at Scarborough Shoal, highlight the potential for quick defection from agreements in Beijing.
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