Image Source : AP Wang Wenbin, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson
Beijing: China on Monday reasserted its declare over the japanese part alongside its border with India after Prime Minister Narendra Modi visited the world over the weekend. PM Modi inaugurated the bi-lane Sela Tunnel on Saturday within the northeastern state of Arunachal Pradesh. For a long time, the area can also be claimed by China as Zangnan or South Tibet. Built at a price of Rs 825 crore, it was constructed on the street connecting Tezpur in Assam to Tawang in Arunachal.
India’s actions will solely additional complicate the border challenge: China
China’s Foreign Ministry spokesperson Wang Wenbin criticised PM Modi’s go to and “rejected” India’s declare over the area at a each day news briefing in Beijing. “The China-India border issue remains unresolved. India has no right to unilaterally develop Zangnan, which belongs to China. India’s actions will only further complicate the border issue and create negative disturbance in the border areas of the two countries. China strongly opposes and deplores the activities of the Indian leader in the eastern section of the China-India border and has made solemn complaints with India,” he stated.
Notably, India and China fought a warfare alongside the border in 1962. The newest dispute flared in June 2020, when a minimum of 20 Indian troopers and 4 Chinese troops had been killed in a brawl within the Ladakh area.
Wang additionally rejected exterior interference in useful resource improvement within the South China Sea, which he deemed as a matter solely between China and the coastal ASEAN international locations.
His remarks got here after the Philippine ambassador to the US Jose Manuel Romualdez stated the nation was searching for to work with the US and its allies on oil and fuel improvement within the resource-rich South China Sea.
Know extra in regards to the world’s longest twin-lane Sela Tunnel
The basis of the undertaking was laid by the prime minister in February 2019, with a price estimation of Rs 697 crore, however work obtained delayed attributable to varied causes, together with the COVID pandemic. This additionally elevated general prices. Construction work had began in April 2019 and the primary blast occurred at tunnel 2 portal 4 on October 31 of the identical 12 months.
The undertaking contains two tunnels, with the primary being a single-tube tunnel of 980 metres in size, and the second being 1.5-km-long with an escape tube for emergencies.
The BRO is engaged in developing 7.1 km of method roads to tunnel 1, 340 metres of method roads to tunnel 2 and 1.3 km of roads between the 2 tunnels. The Sela tunnel has been constructed with the New Austrian Tunneling Method (NATM) and the ultimate breakthrough in tunnel 1 was recorded on January 22.
(With inputs from companies)
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