{"id":257469,"date":"2023-08-26T22:25:34","date_gmt":"2023-08-26T16:55:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=257469"},"modified":"2023-08-26T22:25:34","modified_gmt":"2023-08-26T16:55:34","slug":"china-bhutan-hold-first-meeting-on-delimitation-of-disputed-boundary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/china-bhutan-hold-first-meeting-on-delimitation-of-disputed-boundary\/","title":{"rendered":"China-Bhutan hold first meeting on \u2018delimitation\u2019 of disputed boundary"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><b>Source: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The post is based on the article<\/span><b> \u201cChina-Bhutan hold first meeting on \u2018delimitation\u2019 of disputed boundary\u201d\u00a0 <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">published i<\/span><b>n The Hindu on 26th August 2023.<\/b><\/p>\n<h2><b>What is the News?<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">China and Bhutan held the first meeting of the newly set-up joint technical team on the delimitation of their disputed boundary.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><b>What is the Bhutan China Border Dispute?<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">China claims certain territories from Bhutan:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>In the north:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Pasamlung and Jakarlung valleys; Both of these places are culturally vital for Bhutan.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>In the west:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Doklam, Dramana, and Shakhatoe, Yak Chu and Charithang Chu, and Sinchulungpa and Langmarpo valleys. These places are pasture-rich and strategically located in the Bhutan-India-China trijunction, lying close to India\u2019s<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/what-is-the-siliguri-corridor-explained\/#:~:text=It%20borders%20Nepal%2C%20Bangladesh%20and,Bengal%20towards%20the%20North%20East.\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Siliguri Corridor.<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In 2020, China made new claims on Bhutan\u2019s East in the <\/span><b>Sakteng sanctuary.<\/b><\/p>\n<h2><b>What has been the history of boundary talks between China and Bhutan?<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The boundary talks between Bhutan and China began in 1984, and the 24th round was held in 2016.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The talks have largely focused on disputed areas to Bhutan\u2019s north, and to its west, abutting the Doklam plateau.However, these have been stalled since 2016, especially after the 2017 Doklam stand-off.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In 2021, Bhutan and China signed an MoU on the Three-Step Roadmap for Expediting the China-Bhutan Boundary Negotiations.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><b>What has happened now?<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">China and Bhutan has <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">agreed to expedite and take simultaneous steps to implement the Three-Step Road Map\u201d signed in 2021.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The two sides also agreed to hold the 14th Expert Group Meeting on the China-Bhutan Boundary Issues as soon as possible and maintain communication on holding the 25th Round of China-Bhutan Boundary Talk.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: The post is based on the article \u201cChina-Bhutan hold first meeting on \u2018delimitation\u2019 of disputed boundary\u201d\u00a0 published in The Hindu on 26th August 2023. What is the News? China and Bhutan held the first meeting of the newly set-up joint technical team on the delimitation of their disputed boundary. What is the Bhutan China&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/china-bhutan-hold-first-meeting-on-delimitation-of-disputed-boundary\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">China-Bhutan hold first meeting on \u2018delimitation\u2019 of disputed boundary<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10317,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1566,164,11211,9],"tags":[10498],"class_list":["post-257469","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-factly-articles","category-international-relations-daily-factly-articles","category-places-in-news","category-public","tag-the-hindu","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":6,"cached_at":1698387602,"cached_date":1698409795},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257469","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10317"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=257469"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257469\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=257469"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=257469"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=257469"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}