National flags of China and India fly next to the Meijiang Convention and Exhibition Center, a venue for 2025 Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) summit in Tianjin, China August 30, 2025. / FILE PHOTO REUTERS/Maxim Shemetov

A day after India emphasized that its border issues with China were "most serious" and that "the state of border affairs would reflect the state of  larger  bilateral ties," China on Aug.12 said that "the border situation is generally stable at the moment."

The Chinese state-controlled Global Times reported that the Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Guo Jiakun was questioned about whether there has been a recent military incident with India and whether China had increased its military activity near Arunachal Pradesh that the media platform termed as the "so-called disputed border state." 

“The China-India border situation is generally stable at the moment,” Jiakun was quoted as saying by Global Times.

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“China and India held the 36th meeting of the Working Mechanism for Consultation and Coordination on China-India Border Affairs last week. The two sides agreed to maintain communication via diplomatic and military channels and jointly uphold peace and tranquility in the border areas,” Jiakun was quoted as having stated.

Jiakun was further quoted as saying that the two sides "agreed to maintain communication via diplomatic and military channels and jointly uphold peace and tranquility in the border areas."

Jiakun's reply came on a specific question on "videos that claimed that China had stepped up its military activity in the disputed border state."

China's response comes a day after India emphasized that matters related to the border areas between India and China were extremely serious and that maintaining peace and tranquility in these areas was of utmost importance. 

"We have also made it clear that the situation of the border issues will reflect the state of our broaders bilateral relations...," Ministry of External Affairs spokesperson Randhir Jaiswal told mediapersons in response to questions about the reported stand-off between the Chinese People's Liberation Army and the Indian Army near the Limeking sector in Arunachal Pradesh.

Locals of Arunachal Pradesh have been sharing videos on social media about the Chinese PLA and Indian Army facing off each other in Arunachal Pradesh.

Sginificantly, a fact-finding committee deputed by the People's Party of Arunachal (PPA) - a local political party of the north-eastern Indian state- has reported that the Chinese PLA troops have effectively denied Indian forces access to key patrolling points in the Taksing area of Upper Subansiri district and are steadily expanding control over traditional Indian grazing and hunting grounds along the Line of Actual Control (LAC). 

The four-member committee, headed by former minister and PPA chief adviser Kahfa Bengia had visited the Taksing sector on 10 July along with other members Kaling Jerang (vice president), Sorang Kiokam (secretary) and Narah Jimmy (secretary). According to the PPA, the team had prepared the report after holding detailed interactions with local leaders, elders and intellectuals from Taksing, Maja and Galemo, as well as with senior defence personnel and jawans deployed in the area.

According to news reports, one of the most serious findings was about the 'Shera 5 Point,' a designated Indian patrolling point.   

China terms the Indian state of Arunachal Pradesh as Zangnan and on Monday, the Chinese foreign ministry had said that the "Zangnan region is China’s territory."

"China does not recognize the so-called “Arunachal Pradesh” illegally set up by India. India’s move of attempting to replace names long been used by China with its so-called “standard names” is illegal, null and void. Still less will it change the fact that the Zangnan region belongs to China," Jiakun had said on Monday.

His remarks had come in response to a media query about India marking on August 7 the “standard names” of 27 locations in Arunachal Pradesh on its official Survey of India map in what the Ministry of Home Affairs of India had termed as an exercise aimed at "facilitating their accurate recognition and better awareness among the public at large.”

India's move is being viewed as a counter to China issuing at least six lists since 2017 -repeateldy renaming at least 112 names of places and features in Arunachal Pradesh- and assigning them Chinese and Tibetan names instead.  

 

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