{"id":323996,"date":"2020-06-18T05:09:03","date_gmt":"2020-06-18T05:09:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=323996"},"modified":"2020-06-18T05:09:03","modified_gmt":"2020-06-18T05:09:03","slug":"chinas-claim-over-galwan-valley-exaggerated-and-untenable-mea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/chinas-claim-over-galwan-valley-exaggerated-and-untenable-mea\/","title":{"rendered":"China&#8217;s claim over Galwan Valley \u2018exaggerated and untenable\u2019: MEA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-306592 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/india-china.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"696\" height=\"515\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/12\/india-china.jpg 696w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/12\/india-china-300x222.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/12\/india-china-80x60.jpg 80w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/12\/india-china-485x360.jpg 485w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/12\/india-china-568x420.jpg 568w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 696px) 100vw, 696px\" \/>The Indian government late Wednesday night has taken strong exception to China claiming sovereignty over the Galwan Valley in Ladakh, saying its &#8220;exaggerated and untenable claims&#8221; are contrary to the understanding reached on the issue between the two sides.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;\">Ministry of External Affairs Spokesperson Anurag Srivastava&#8217;s response came after China claimed that the Galwan Valley in Ladakh is a part of its territory.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;\">In response to a query on the statement by the Chinese side that the sovereignty of the Galvan valley area belongs to China, the Official Spokesperson Anurag Srivastava said,<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;\">\u201cAs we have conveyed earlier today External Affairs Minister and the State Councillor and Foreign Minister of China had a phone conversation on recent developments in Ladakh,\u201d Srivastava said late Wednesday night.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;\">\u201cBoth sides have agreed that the overall situation should be handled in a responsible manner and that the understandings reached between Senior Commanders on 6th June should be implemented sincerely. Making exaggerated and untenable claims is contrary to this understanding,\u201d he added.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;\">Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday said, \u201cI want to assure the Nation that the sacrifice made by our soldiers will not go in vain.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;\">\u201cIndia\u2019s integrity and sovereignty are supreme for us, and no one can stop us from defending it,\u201d he said.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Indian government late Wednesday night has taken strong exception to China claiming sovereignty over the Galwan Valley in Ladakh, saying its &#8220;exaggerated and untenable claims&#8221; are contrary to the understanding reached on the issue between the two sides. Ministry of External Affairs Spokesperson Anurag Srivastava&#8217;s response came after China claimed that the Galwan Valley [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":306592,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[36],"tags":[666,574,424],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/323996"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/users\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=323996"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/323996\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":323997,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/323996\/revisions\/323997"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/306592"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=323996"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=323996"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=323996"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}