India misleading people on standoff, says China
China accused India of “misleading the public” on Wednesday by saying that Chinese troops are building a road close to the ‘chicken’s neck’ in the Sikkim sector which could endanger India’s access to the north- eastern states.
“In disregard of the 1890 SinoBritain convention, the Indian side said that Doklam is located within the tri- junction of the three countries, that is misleading the public,” Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Gen Shuang told reporters in Beijing.
“The 1890 convention said that the Sikkim section of the boundary commences from East mountain and the incident (of road building) took place about 2,000 meters away from Mount Gipmochi,” Geng asserted.
He claimed that the incident has nothing to do with the trijunction between China, India and Bhutan.
“The Indian side is actually misleading the public by saying that the incident took place at the tri-junction point,” Geng said defending China’s road building which India and Bhutan have objected to.
India has expressed concern over the road building, apprehending that it may allow Chinese troops to cut India’s access to its northeastern states.
On the day, China also claimed it has a “basic consensus” with Bhutan on the boundary and there is no dispute between two countries in the Doklam area, the centre of the current Sino-India military standoff.
India will be “kicked” out from the area of an ongoing military standoff with China and suffer “greater losses” than it did during the 1962 war, Chinese official media warned on Wednesday, adding that New Delhi needed to be taught a “bitter lesson”. ››P4