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Agence France-Presse

India will not let its “pride be hurt” in its latest border flare-ups with China but is determined to settle the dispute through talks between the giant neighbours, Defence Minister Rajnath Singh has said.
Singh also said in a television interview late Saturday that India has turned down an offer to mediate made by US President Donald Trump.
Hundreds of Indian and Chinese troops are involved in the latest face-off concentrated in India’s Ladakh region just opposite Tibet.
The two countries have several disputes along their 3,500km (2,175 miles) border. They fought a frontier war in 1962 and there have been regular spats since, though no shot has been fired since the 1970s.
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The latest tensions blew up on May 9 when dozens of Chinese and Indian soldiers were injured in fistfights and stone-throwing in Sikkim state. Many of the Indian soldiers are still in hospital.
The main showdown is now in Ladakh centred around the Galwan valley which controls access to several strategic points on their Himalayan border.
The two sides have blamed each other but analysts say that India’s building of new roads in the region may have been the fuse for the dispute.

Both sides have sent reinforcements and heavy equipment to the zone.
“I want to assure the country that we will not let India’s pride be hurt in any circumstances,” the defence minister told the Aaj Tak television channel.
He referred to a similar 2017 showdown on the Doklam Plateau which he said was “very tense” but “we did not step back”.
China-India tensions mount amid troop stand-offs along disputed border
“India has been following a clear policy of maintaining good relationship with neighbouring countries. It is not a new approach,” he added.
“At times, situations arise with China. It has happened before,” Singh said while insisting that India was striving to make sure “tension does not escalate”.
“Negotiations are ongoing between the two countries at the military and diplomatic levels,” he said.
The US president last week tweeted an offer to mediate in what he called a “raging” dispute.
Singh said he spoke to US Defence Secretary Mark Esper on Friday to emphasise that India and China have mechanisms to resolve “problems” through talks at diplomatic and military levels.
On Wednesday, Chinese foreign ministry spokesperson Zhao Lijian said that the border situation was “generally stable and controllable”.
Additional reporting by Associated Press


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China-India border dispute

India will defend its ‘pride’ in border flare-up with China, minister says

A Chinese soldier and an Indian soldier near the shared border in India’s northeastern Sikkim state. File photo: AFP

In this Sept. 14, 2018, photo, an Indian Army truck crosses Chang la pass near Pangong Lake in Ladakh region, India. Indian and Chinese soldiers are in a bitter standoff in the remote and picturesque Ladakh region, with the two countries amassing soldiers and machinery near the tense frontier, Indian officials said. The standoff began in early May, 2020, when large contingents of Chinese soldiers entered deep inside Indian-controlled territory at three places in Ladakh, erecting tents and posts, the officials said this week. They said the soldiers ignored repeated verbal warnings, triggering a yelling match, stone-throwing and even fist fights in at least one place along Pangong Lake, the site of several such confrontations in the past. (AP Photo/Manish Swarup)

China-India tensions mount as troop stand-offs along disputed border cause speculation to swirl

A Chinese soldier gestures next to an Indian soldier at a border crossing between India and China in Sikkim state. Photo: AFP

In this Sunday, June 17, 2016, photo, an Indian tourist rides on a horse back at the Pangong lake high up in Ladahak region of India. The Chinese soldiers hurled stones while attempting to enter Ladakh region near Pangong Lake on Tuesday but were confronted by Indian soldiers, said a top police officer. The officer said Indian soldiers retaliated but neither side used guns. There was immediately no comment from China. (AP Photo/Manish Swarup)

This handout photograph released by India's Press Information Bureau (PIB) on April 28, 2018 shows India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi (L) and Chinese President Xi Jinping looking on in a house boat, at East Lake, in Wuhan. Chinese President Xi Jinping and Prime Minister Narendra Modi ended informal meetings in China on April 28 with a promise to reduce border tensions after a high-altitude standoff in the Himalayas last year. / AFP PHOTO / PIB / Handout / RESTRICTED TO EDITORIAL USE - MANDATORY CREDIT "AFP PHOTO / PIB" - NO MARKETING NO ADVERTISING CAMPAIGNS - DISTRIBUTED AS A SERVICE TO CLIENTS -

File - In this Wednesday, Oct. 23, 2013, file photo, an Indian national flag is flown next to the Chinese national emblem during a welcome ceremony for visiting Indian officials outside the Great Hall of the People in Beijing. China and India may have ended a tense border standoff for now, but their longstanding rivalry raises questions about the possibility of meaningful cooperation at the annual summit of the BRICS grouping encompassing Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa. (AP Photo/Andy Wong, File)

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Chinese, Indian soldiers wounded in high-altitude clash at border near Tibet

The Nathula Pass in Sikkim, India. File photo: Bloomberg

Police detain demonstrators during a protest against India's newly inaugurated link road to the Chinese border, in Kathmandu on May 10, 2020. - Nepal protested India's inauguration of a new road to China that passes through territory claimed by Kathmandu on May 9, with police arresting dozens demonstrating close to India's embassy. (Photo by PRAKASH MATHEMA / AFP)

epa08412717 Nepalese police officers using batons stop demonstrators during a protest against the Indian government in front of Parliament Building in Kathmandu, Nepal, 10 May 2020, amid a nationwide lockdown due to the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic. Dozens of youths from the 'Save Border Movement' staged protests to mount pressure on the Nepali government to take necessary measures against India's unilateral construction of a link road connecting India with Mansarovar of Tibet, China via the Lipulekh region, a Nepali territory, according to media reports. EPA-EFE/NARENDRA SHRESTHA

Police detain demonstrators during a protest against India's newly inaugurated link road to the Chinese border, in front of the Parliament in Kathmandu on May 10, 2020. - Nepal protested India's inauguration of a new road to China that passes through territory claimed by Kathmandu on May 9, with police arresting dozens demonstrating close to India's embassy. (Photo by STR / AFP)

US asks India to resist China ‘aggression’ at Himalayan border

Indian soldiers keep vigil at Bumla pass at the India-China border in Arunachal Pradesh. Photo: AFP

(FILES) In this file photo US Assistant Secretary of State for democracy, human rights, and labor, Robert Destro (R), looks on as US acting Assistant Secretary of State for South and Central Asian affairs, Alice Wells, speaks during an Asia, the Pacific and Nonproliferation Subcommittee hearing on "Human Rights in South Asia: Views from the State Department and the Region" on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC on October 22, 2019. - The acting top US diplomat for South Asia announced her retirement May 3, 2020, as President Donald Trump looks increasingly likely to go a full term without a Senate-confirmed State Department official focused on the subcontinent. Alice Wells, a career diplomat who has served as acting assistant secretary of state for South and Central Asia for most of the Trump administration, will retire on May 22 after a 31-year career, the State Department said. (Photo by Andrew CABALLERO-REYNOLDS / AFP)

China and India move more troops to disputed border in Ladakh region as tensions build

A Chinese soldier and an Indian soldier work on a wire fence near their shared border. Photo: AFP

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