Indian troops gather on Chinese border after soldiers clash

‘Volatile’ situation worsening after skirmish 12 days ago

Indian foreign minister Subrahmanyam Jaishankar
Indian foreign minister Subrahmanyam Jaishankar insisted that the Indian army will not let Beijing change the status quo along the border
(Image credit: Bryan van der Beek/Bloomberg via Getty Images)

India has moved more troops to its disputed border with China after a clash between soldiers of the two nations.

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  Chas Newkey-Burden has been part of The Week Digital team for more than a decade and a journalist for 25 years, starting out on the irreverent football weekly 90 Minutes, before moving to lifestyle magazines Loaded and Attitude. He was a columnist for The Big Issue and landed a world exclusive with David Beckham that became the weekly magazine’s bestselling issue. He now writes regularly for The Guardian, The Telegraph, The Independent, Metro, FourFourTwo and the i new site. He is also the author of a number of non-fiction books.