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Doklam: Hindi Chini Bhai Bhai only way for India and China, says Dalai Lama

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Dalai Lama's appeal for peace came amid the standoff between the Indian and Chinese force in Doklam LATEST NEWS    :   Tibetan spiritual leader the 14th Dalai Lama on Wednesday urged India and China to maintain peace, saying that both nations are like brothers and have to live side by side. "Eventually, 'Hindi-Chini- Bhai Bhai' is the only way; the two big nations, you have to live side by side," Dalai Lama said while attending a programme here. He said he likes India as there is freedom in this country and he has more opportunity to share. "There is freedom in this country, I can do more and have more opportunity to share. Where there is no freedom, I don't like," he said. He also added that as per the wish of Chinese people, the Communist Party of China may follow his practice of democracy. "Our small Tibetan community fully practices democracy and I am an admirer of democracy. People are real rulers of a countr...

Full text: China's official position on Sikkim standoff with India

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China reiterates its position, asks India to withdraw and conduct an investigation LATEST NEWS :   Chinese President Xi Jinping on Tuesday said China cannot let a single piece of its territory split and won't allow anyone to damage its sovereignty. INDIA CHINA STANDOFF : The armies of both countries have been engaged in a standoff since June 16 in Sikkim section where India and China share a 220-km-long border. China has maintained that there won't be a meaningful dialogue without the unconditional withdrawal of Indian troops. Meanwhile, India maintains that the unilateral action by China to build a road in the area was altering the status quo and had serious security implications for India. Doklam is disputed between China and Bhutan, whose ally India backs Bhutan in its claims over the region. At the tri-junction China, India, and Bhutan, Doklam is of strategic importance to all three. Beijing wants New Delhi to withdraw troops from Doklam. New...

Leave Sikkim Dokalam area with dignity or be kicked out: Chinese media

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China and India have been engaged in a standoff in the Dokalam area near the Bhutan trijunction Latest news : The Chinese official media on Wednesday stepped up its attack on India with editorials asking Indian troops to move out of Dokalam area in Sikkim sector "with dignity or be kicked out" and describing the situation as "worryingly tense". While China's nationalistic tabloid Global Times said India should be taught a "bitter lesson", another official newspaper, China Daily, said India should look in the mirror. The Global Times said in its editorial that India will suffer "greater losses" than in 1962 if it "incites" border clashes with China. As the standoff in the Dokalam area continued for the third week, it said India should be taught a "bitter lesson". It also claimed that the Chinese public was infuriated by India's "provocation". "We believe the Chinese People'...