Overview
- Chinese foreign ministry spokesperson Mao Ning said the area is Chinese territory and called the infrastructure activity “beyond reproach.”
- India had objected on Friday, reserving the right to take necessary measures and reaffirming that Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh are integral parts of India.
- Pakistan handed over about 5,180 sq km in the Shaksgam Valley to China under a 1963 agreement that India says is illegal and invalid.
- Beijing described the China–Pakistan Economic Corridor as an economic initiative for local development and said it does not change China’s position on the Kashmir issue.
- The diplomatic exchange unfolds against an over three-and-a-half-year border standoff between India and China in eastern Ladakh.