China on Monday said that India has “conducted frequent acts of trespass in the border area in an attempt to encroach” the country’s territory. The Chinese foreign ministry was reacting to Indian Minister of State for Transport and Highways VK Singh’s comment that India has crossed the Line of Actual Control more number of times than China, but the government does not publicly announce it.
“This is an unwitting confession by the Indian side,” Chinese foreign ministry spokesperson Wang Wenbin said after a media briefing. “For a long time, the Indian side has conducted frequent acts of trespass in the border area in an attempt to encroach on China’s territory and constantly created disputes and frictions, which is the root cause of the tensions at the China-India border.”
Wang also urged the Indian government to follow through on the “consensus, agreements and treaties” it reached with China, and uphold peace and stability in the border with “concrete…
