Overview
- Chinese foreign ministry spokesperson Mao Ning said the area is Chinese territory and called infrastructure activity there “beyond reproach.”
- Beijing cited its 1960s boundary agreement with Pakistan and described the China–Pakistan Economic Corridor as a legitimate development effort.
- India’s Ministry of External Affairs reiterated that Shaksgam Valley is Indian territory, called the 1963 pact illegal, and said it does not recognise CPEC segments in claimed areas.
- Army Chief General Upendra Dwivedi publicly rejected China’s claim and the legal basis it invokes, stressing that India does not approve activities in the tract.
- The dispute focuses on a roughly 5,180 sq km area ceded by Pakistan to China in 1963 that sits near Xinjiang, the Siachen Glacier and CPEC routes, with tensions elevated but no new military confrontation reported.