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New Chinese village in Bhutan? A tweet by a Chinese journalist starts a row, Thimphu denies encroachment

Satellite imagery analysts claimed the village was two kilometres inside Bhutanese territory. The Chinese journalist has since deleted his tweet about the village. Representational image of Chinese soldiers | Photo: D. Myles Cullen | Commons A Chinese journalist has sparked controversy after tweeting, and then deleting, the map of a new village of the country.  Satellite imagery analysts claimed the village was two kilometres inside Bhutanese territory and near the Doklam Plateau , but Bhutan has contested the analysis, asserting that there is no Chinese encroachment on its territory. “There is no Chinese village on Bhutanese territory,” Major General V. Namgyel, Bhutan’s envoy to India, told ThePrint. Asked if the village was on Chinese land, he repeated that all he can say is that there are no Chinese villages on Bhutanese land. To combat this Chinese engineers have constructed a small retaining wall, I assume designed to keep any flood water out of the village. I'm not sure I...

OCTOBER 20 - NATIONAL SOLIDARITY DAY

National Solidarity Day is celebrated on 2 0th Octobe r every year to remember the national integrity shown by Indian citizens in the face of defeat in the Sino-Indian war. 20th October 1962 the war began when People's Liberation Army (PLA) of China attacked India at the Himalayan borders in Ladakh and Arunachal Pradesh simultaneously. This became a wake-up call for India to establish an efficient armed force for border security. National Solidarity day is a reminder to all Indians of the significance of unity and integrity in protecting our nation. This year National Solidarity Day 2020 will be on 20th October 2020, Tuesday. Sino-Indo War (20 Oct 1962 – 21 Nov 1962) After regaining their Independence there was a constant boundary dispute between China and India as there was no clear border separation. China claimed Aksai Chin and Arunachal Pradesh as its territories in their maps and even rejected to acknowledge McMohan Line which separates India and China border in the east...