While speaking to reporters in Madurai on Sunday, 7 February, BJP minister Gen VK Singh said the border had never been demarcated. So, while China had transgressed across the LAC according to its perception, India had done the same but the government did not announce it.
“Chinese media does not cover it,” Singh said, adding, “Let me assure you, if China has transgressed 10 times, we must have done it at least 50 times,” The Hindu quoted.
On Monday, Wang Wenbin, the spokesperson for China’s Foreign Ministry said, “This is an unwitting confession by the Indian side.”
Speaking in regards to Gen VK Singh’s statement, Wenbin highlighted, “frequent acts of trespass” undertaken by India, which “constantly created disputes and frictions”, calling them “the root cause of the tension at the China-India border”.
Wenbin also urged the “Indian side to follow through on the consensus, agreements and treaties it reached with China, and uphold peace and stability in the border region…