Concerns over Chinese military deployment have started mounting, with Indian navy sources reporting on Monday an increase in activity by Chinese vessels in the Indian ocean region. An intelligence-gathering ship, Haiwingxing, was spotted in Indian Ocean late last month, weeks after the Sikkim impasse began. “Former Indian PM Jawaharlal Nehru endorsed the 1890 Sino-British Treaty on Sikkim in a letter to the then Chinese counterpart Zhou Enlai in 1959. Successive Indian governments have also endorsed this,” Geng Shuang, ministry of foreign affairs (MFA) spokesperson, said at the regular ministry briefing. The region is where the borders of the three countries — India, China and Bhutan — meet.

Source: Hindustan Times July 03, 2017 12:11 UTC