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China is now in the process of extending the Beijing- Lhasa high speed railway line to Yadong, and is expected to begin test runs in less than two years. China was reported to have Pressured Bhutan by saying it would not agree to a border deal until Bhutan allowed it to open a diplomatic mission in that country. China describes the construction of 1. TENSION @ TRI- the border road as “legitimate”, maintaining that it was being built on Chinese territory that does not belong to India or JUNCTION Bhutan and no other country had the right to interfere. China also feels that Bhutan is an internationally recognised country It has been more than a month now since Indian and its sovereignty is to be respected. Even if the boundary troops and the People’s Liberation Army of China have been is delimited, no third party should interfere and make in a stand-off at Doklam at the tri-junction between India, irresponsible comments. India was likely intended to avoid Bhutan and China. Tensions flared in mid-June, when China drawing Bhutan into the controversy. began constructing a road in the disputed Doklam Plateau. China has demanded the withdrawal of Indian In a cold, isolated Himalayan plateau where three countries troops from a scrap of disputed territory to end an escalating converge, an old rivalry is heating up. New Delhi and Beijing border row between the two Asian powers that has drawn in are locked in heated verbal exchanges over what each sees tiny Bhutan. Beijing claims the Indian troops are occupying as encroachment onto a particularly sensitive spot: the tri- its soil, but both Bhutan and India maintain the area in junction where India, China, and Bhutan converge. All three question is Bhutanese territory. Analysts maintain that armed are parties to the simmering dispute. conflict between the two Asian powers is unlikely, but say For the first time India and China had squared off the harsh language and scale of the mobilisation in the remote on the soil of a third country, an overt display of the escalating but strategically important area, where the borders of China, regional rivalry between the pair. The issue erupted last month India and Bhutanintersect, is unprecedented in recent years. when Indian troops blocked Chinese road works in Doklam Beijing considers the plateau vital to fortify the in an unarmed confrontation involving bumping chests dagger-shaped Chumbi Valley by piercing the trijunction of against each other. China says the Doklam plateau is its these countries. The Trijunction is of immense strategic territory and whatever its dispute in the area with Bhutan, significance to the three countries. In recent years, China Indian troops have unnecessarily butted in. Indian media has been building an elaborate network of roads wide enough reports say Bhutan asked New Delhi for help in the matter.