NEW DELHI: Bhutan has refused to yield to Chinese pressure on altering the terms that govern the boundary talks between Thimphu and Beijing. It has rejected a new proposal by China to steer the process through a so-called Three Step Roadmap (TSR). The 10th Expert Group Meeting (EGM) between China and Bhutan, held in Kunming […]Read More

NEW DELHI: The 25th round of border talks between China and Bhutan has been scheduled for April 7 and 8 and will be hosted in Kunming, southwestern China’s biggest city, sources have told StratNews Global. A delegation from Bhutan is reportedly already in China undergoing the mandatory 14-day quarantine in view of the pandemic. Although […]Read More

NEW DELHI: China’s border issues with India have tended to obscure its territorial claims in other parts of this region. Nepal has seen a sudden surge in anti-China sentiment amid reports of Beijing taking over Nepali territory in a remote border district. It hasn’t helped that Nepal’s ruling communist party has been quick to give […]Read More

Nearly 30 months after the border standoff at Dolam (popularly known as Doklam) was resolved, China is far from giving up attempts to whittle down India’s influence over Bhutan, the third and most important angle of the triangular mess in the strategically important Himalayan frontier. Throughout 2019, Beijing sought to increase the pressure on the […]Read More
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