Nov 20,2020:Bhutan on Friday rejected the Chinese state media report claiming that the Chinese authorities have set up a village more than 2 kilometres inside Bhutanese territory.
“There is no Chinese village inside Bhutan,” Major General Vetsop Namgyel, Bhutanese Ambassador to India, told ANI.
This comes after Shen Shiwei, news producer for CGTN, Chinese state-sponsored media, had tweeted, “Now, we have permanent residents living in the newly established Pangda village. It`s along the valley where 35 km south to Yadong county.”
Later the tweet was removed.
However, it is to be noted that satellite imagery and map locations have showed what appears to be the Chinese settlement near the contested Doklam platueu area.
An NDTV report also cites official maps stamped by the Bhutanese government, which show that the Chinese settlement lies “well within Bhutan’s present claim lines”.
The report also quotes international observers and satellite imagery experts as challenging Bhutan’s denial of what is being called a “clear breach of Bhutan’s sovereignty”.
The Pangda village lies 2 kilometres within Bhutanese territory.
