Attempts to alter status quo will have 'repercussions': India warns China

Indian Ambassador to China, Vikram Misri said rubbished China's claim of sovereignty over Galwan Valley in Ladakh as "completely untenable"

India on Friday warned China that trying to alter the status quo on the ground by resorting to force will not just damage the peace that existed on the border areas but can also have "ripples and repercussions" in the broader bilateral relationship, and demanded that Beijing stop its activities in eastern Ladakh.
 

The only way to resolve the current military standoff along the LAC in eastern Ladakh was for Beijing to realise that trying to "change the status quo by resorting to force or coercion, is not the right way forward,” India's ambassador to China Vikram Misri said in