China said Indian forces Monday crossed into territory it holds along their disputed border and fired warning shots at a Chinese patrol in what it called a violation of their agreements. India denied that and said the Chinese soldiers tried to surround one of their forward posts in a "grave provocation" and also fired few warning shots.
After shots were fired, Chinese forces took "necessary measures to stabilize and control the situation," the command said, in the statement citing spokesman Zhang Shuili. It demanded the Indian forces withdraw and investigate the move to open fire. He accused China's military for "blatantly violating agreements and carrying out aggressive manoeuvrs while engagement at military, diplomatic and political level is in progress."Late last month, India says its soldiers thwarted the Chinese military's moves "to change the status quo" in violation of a consensus reached in past efforts to settle the standoff. In turn, China also accused Indian troops of crossing established lines of control.
The disputed and undemarcated 3,500-kilometre border between India and China, referred to as the Line of Actual Control, stretches from the Ladakh region in the north to the Indian state of Arunachal Pradesh. According to China, the frontier is about 2,000 kilometres and claims entire Arunachal Pradesh as its territory.
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