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He said when it comes to resolving an issue, there is no point in drawing lessons from the world or assuming things as it is not a “mind-reading exercise”.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Chinese President Xi Jinping on Friday shook hands and had a conversation on a "range of issues" during the BRICS leaders' informal meeting here amid a stand-off between the armies of the two countries in the Sikkim section.
As India pushed in more troops in a "non-combative mode" to strengthen its position in an area near Sikkim, China on Monday called for withdrawal of forces in order to de-ecalate tension and resolve the fresh border stand-off between the two countries.
Sources said the PLA on June 1 asked the Indian Army to remove the two bunkers set up in 2012 at Lalten in Doka La, which falls in the vicinity of Chumbi Valley at the corner of India-Bhutan- Tibet tri-junction.
Army Chief General Bipin Rawat will start his two-day northeast visit from Sikkim on Thursday.
China has no diplomatic ties with Bhutan where India is said to have considerable influence.
In a major provocation, the Chinese troops on Monday entered India in the Sikkim sector and jostled with Indian Army personnel guarding the Indo-Sino frontier, besides destroying two Indian bunkers.
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