“We strongly oppose any unilateral attempts to advance territorial claims by incursions or encroachments, military or civilian, across the Line of Actual Control,” Vedant Patel, the U.S. State Department’s principal deputy spokesperson, told reporters in Washington late on Wednesday, when asked about China’s stance.
“Delimitation of the China-India boundary has never been completed,” Foreign Ministry spokesperson Lin Jian told reporters.
Tensions rose this month after Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi visited Arunachal Pradesh on March 9, as he prepares to seek a third term in a general election beginning April 19 and running until early June.
Modi inaugurated a $100 million tunnel project that is expected to provide “all-weather” connectivity to the strategic Tawang region of the remote state, helping India shore up defense along the 3,500-kilometer de facto border with China known as the Line of Actual Control, or LAC.
China, which regularly takes exception when Indian leaders visit the region, issued a statement “strongly deploring and firmly opposing” Modi’s trip.
They have also been locked in a border standoff in the eastern Ladakh region since 2020, when a deadly hand-to-hand clash broke out between their troops.
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“We strongly oppose any unilateral attempts to advance territorial claims by incursions or encroachments, military or civilian, across the Line of Actual Control,” Vedant Patel, the U.S. State Department’s principal deputy spokesperson, told reporters in Washington late on Wednesday, when asked about China’s stance.
“Delimitation of the China-India boundary has never been completed,” Foreign Ministry spokesperson Lin Jian told reporters.
Tensions rose this month after Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi visited Arunachal Pradesh on March 9, as he prepares to seek a third term in a general election beginning April 19 and running until early June.
Modi inaugurated a $100 million tunnel project that is expected to provide “all-weather” connectivity to the strategic Tawang region of the remote state, helping India shore up defense along the 3,500-kilometer de facto border with China known as the Line of Actual Control, or LAC.
China, which regularly takes exception when Indian leaders visit the region, issued a statement “strongly deploring and firmly opposing” Modi’s trip.
They have also been locked in a border standoff in the eastern Ladakh region since 2020, when a deadly hand-to-hand clash broke out between their troops.
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