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Localized tensions arose in the 1960s but in the 1970s negotiations between China and Bhutan, with India sometimes played a supporting role, failed to create a consensus on the status of the Doklam plateau.

In keeping with the abiding ties of close friendship and cooperation between Bhutan and India, the Government of the Kingdom of Bhutan and the Government of the Republic of India shall cooperate closely with each other on issues relating to their national interests.įrom 1958, Chinese maps started showing large parts of Bhutanese territory as part of China. In 2007, the treaty was superseded by a new Friendship Treaty that replaced the provision that made it mandatory for Bhutan to take India's guidance on foreign policy, provided broader sovereignty but also stated in its Article 2: In 1949, Bhutan signed a treaty with India giving allowance to India to guide its diplomatic and defense affairs. However Bhutan was not a party to the Convention. As per Chinese claims, Doklam is located in the Xigaze area of Tibet, bordering the state of Sikkim. The line commences at Mount Gipmochi on the Bhutan frontier, and follows the above-mentioned water-parting to the point where it meets Nipal territory.Ĭhina asserts that by this Convention, the starting point of the Sikkim-Tibet border is "Mount Gipmochi on the Bhutan frontier" and that this clearly defines the tri-junction point. The boundary of Sikkim and Tibet shall be the crest of the mountain range separating the waters flowing into the Sikkim Teesta and its affluents from the waters flowing into the Tibetan Mochu and northwards into other Rivers of Tibet. Ĭhina's claim on Doklam is based on the 1890 Convention of Calcutta between China and Britain, which states in Article I:

Unlike China and Bhutan, India does not claim Doklam but supports Bhutan's claim. Main article: Doklam#Sino-Bhutanese_border_dispute_at_Doklamĭoklam is an area disputed between China and Bhutan located near their tri-junction with India. On 28 August, both India and China announced that they had withdrawn all their troops from the face-off site in Doklam. On 18 June 2017, around 270 Indian troops, with weapons and two bulldozers, entered Doklam to stop the Chinese troops from constructing the road. On 16 June 2017 Chinese troops with construction vehicles and road-building equipment began extending an existing road southward in Doklam, a territory which is claimed by both China as well as India's ally Bhutan. The 2017 China India border standoff or Doklam standoff refers to the military border standoff between the Indian armed forces and the People's Liberation Army of China over construction of a road in Doklam, known as Donglang, or Donglang Caochang (meaning Donglang pasture or grazing field), in Chinese.