{"id":22480,"date":"2017-07-24T18:00:13","date_gmt":"2017-07-24T12:30:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/?p=22480"},"modified":"2017-07-24T18:04:49","modified_gmt":"2017-07-24T12:34:49","slug":"china-india-ready-defend-sovereignty-cost","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/world-news\/china-india-ready-defend-sovereignty-cost\/","title":{"rendered":"China to India: Ready to Defend Sovereignty at All Cost"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]<em>Beijing advises India to abandon illusions<\/em><\/p>\n<p>China has once again urged India to immediately withdraw all troops that have \u201cillegally\u201d entered China, stating that the nation would defend its territorial sovereignty \u201cat all costs\u201d. Indian forces are stationed in Doklam, where Chinese forces were trying to build road in the disputed territory.<\/p>\n<p>Chinese official Xinhua news agency, quoted Wu Qian, the spokesperson for the Ministry of National Defense saying on Monday, \u201cWe strongly urge India to take solid measures to correct its mistakes and desist from provocation.\u201d He called for a joint effort to maintain peace in the border areas.<\/p>\n<p>Chinese spokesman further warned India to abandon any impractical illusions. \u00a0He said, \u201cThe Chinese border troops have taken initial counter measures at the site and will step up targeted deployment and training.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHere I wish to remind India, do not push your luck and cling to any fantasies. The 90-year history of the PLA has proved but one thing \u2013 that our military means to secure our country&#8217;s sovereignty and territorial integrity has strengthened and our determination has never wavered. It is easier to shake a mountain than to shake the PLA,\u201d Qian said.<\/p>\n<p>On July 20,<a href=\"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/topic\/sushma-swaraj\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> Minister of External Affairs Sushma Swaraj <\/a>told Parliament, \u201cIf China, unilaterally changes the status quo of the tri-junction point, it is straight challenge to our security.\u201d\u00a0 Swaraj said, \u201cBoth sides must pull back troops and work things out with talks.\u201d She further said, \u201cIndia has not said anything unreasonable\u201d and that \u201call countries are in India\u2019s support.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>However, Global Times, the Chinese official newspaper, on July 21, accused Swaraj of \u201clying\u201d to Parliament and also dismissed as \u201cfantasy\u201d her suggestion that both India and China withdraw their soldiers simultaneously for a dialogue.<\/p>\n<p>The armies of both the countries are locked in a standoff at <a href=\"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/topic\/doklam\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Doklam plateau, <\/a>situated at the tri-junction of India-Bhutan-China border since June 5, when <a href=\"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/topic\/indian-army\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Indian army <\/a>deterred PLA from constructing road in that area. China claims that India was trying to intervene in the Sino-Bhutan territorial dispute.[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Beijing advises India to abandon illusions China has once again urged India to immediately withdraw all troops that have \u201cillegally\u201d entered China, stating that the nation would defend its territorial sovereignty \u201cat all costs\u201d. Indian forces are stationed in Doklam, where Chinese forces were trying to build road in the disputed territory. Chinese official Xinhua [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":22483,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_eb_attr":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[1511],"tags":[1303,13016,1453,1965,212],"yst_prominent_words":[13864,4355,8546,7412,13862,11238,5997,13865,3704,13861,3887,9758,6082,6071,7709,13867,13866,7411,13863,6867],"ppma_author":[140543],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/d2r2ijn7njrktv.cloudfront.net\/apnlive\/uploads\/2017\/07\/wu-quian.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"authors":[{"term_id":140543,"user_id":4,"is_guest":0,"slug":"apnnewsdesk","display_name":"APN Live","avatar_url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/478eacb893eda88aa6ed8d99b005bf58?s=96&r=g"}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22480"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22480"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22480\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22483"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22480"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22480"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22480"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=22480"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ppma_author?post=22480"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<!-- html is corrupted -->