A US Congresswoman has claimed that China has “quietly resumed” its activities in the Doklam area and neither Bhutan nor India have sought to dissuade it, an assertion that was denied by New Delhi today.
Congresswoman Ann Wagner made the claim during a Congressional hearing of the House Foreign Affairs Sub-Committee for Asia and the Pacific. During the hearing, she posed a question to a State Department official, Alice G Wells, on Beijing’s actions in the Himalayan region and compared them with its manoeuvres in the disputed South China Sea.
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The government on Thursday strongly denied media reports quoting a top US official as saying that China had resumed activity in the Doklam region and dismissed the news as incorrect. “The press reports attributing remarks on Doklam to a US official are incorrect. The reference to Doklam was made by Congresswoman Anne Wagner in the form of a question posed to the senior state department official Alice Wells. Ms. Wells, in her reply, made no reference to the situation in Doklam and said that India is vigorously defending its northern borders and this is a subject of concern to India,” an official government spokesperson said.
The spokesperson added that there have been no new developments at the site of the face-off with China since the
disengagement of troops last year. “I would reiterate that since the disengagement of Indian and Chinese border personnel in the Doklam area on August 28, 2017, there have been no new developments at the face-off site and its vicinity. The status quo prevails in this area,” the spokesperson said.
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