One year prior to the 2017 standoff, Beijing was already starting a major bid to bolster its claims by building roads and villages in the Jakarlung valley – along another China-Bhutan frontier ...

Beijing's call for establishing direct diplomatic ties with Bhutan isn't new. It follows China building multiple villages on disputed border territory, activities that have mirrored the gray-zone ...

China tightening grip on Chicken’s Neck using Trishul Niti with Nepal, Bhutan, and Bangladesh; North-East India will…, ...

Bhutan's decision-makers appear to be focused on reaching a deal in the north that is separate from India and its concerns.Beijing's yearslong construction plan has changed the reality on the ...

China and Bhutan do not have diplomatic relations but maintain contact through periodic visits by officials. While Beijing resolved the boundary disputes with the 12 other neighbours, India and ...

Bhutan’s Foreign Minister Dr.Tandi Dorji, who is currently visiting Beijing, and China’s Vice Foreign Minister Sun Weidong held the 25th Round of Boundary Talks on Monday and Tuesday.

At the heart of border negotiations between Beijing and Thimphu, which began in 1984, is the disputed tri-junction on the Doklam plateau between China, Bhutan and India – where Chinese and ...

Citing a recent report by research associate Robert Barnett, the Indian newspaper said that since 2016, when China first built a village in territory understood to be part of Bhutan, Beijing has ...

Indeed, Beijing has repeatedly voiced its intent to normalize relations, and the prospect of a growing Chinese footprint in Bhutan has New Delhi “crapping themselves,” one former top Bhutanese ...

China and Bhutan agreed to push for the early settlement of their border dispute and the establishment of diplomatic ties in what mainland observers described as "a breakthrough" in Beijing's ...

Chinese construction is expanding on land that Bhutan’s official maps show as part of the Himalayan kingdom, as Beijing ramps up efforts under leader Xi Jinping’s national security drive to ...