War possible if Sikkim standoff not handled properly: Chinese experts

Beijing, July 3 : China will resolutely safeguard its sovereignty in the border conflicts with India even at the cost of war, Chinese experts warned on Monday, amid a stand-off between the two nations in the Sikkim sector. As the stand-off at the Doklam area continued for the third week, the longest between the two countries, the official media and the think tanks here said that “war is possible if the conflict between India and China is not handled properly”.Of the 3,488-km-long India-China border from Jammu and Kashmir to Arunachal Pradesh, a 220-km section falls in Sikkim.
China will resolutely safeguard its border sovereignty in conflicts with Indian troops even at the cost of war, state-run Global Times daily quoted Chinese experts as saying. “China is also different from what it was in 1962,” Wang Dehua, a professor at the Shanghai Municipal Centre for International Studies told the daily reacting to Defence Minister Arun Jaitley’s comments that India of 2017 is different from what it was in 1962.