Doklam row: India and China finally end two-month long military stand-off

MEA said New Delhi, Beijing maintained diplomatic communication and were able to express their views

Less than a week before Prime Minister Narendra Modi is to land in China to attend the BRICS Summit, India and China on Monday agreed to end the over two-month long military stand-off in the remote Doklam plateau.

Officially, neither Beijing nor New Delhi claimed victory. Both sides said they expected the other to maintain peace and tranquility in the border areas.

If Beijing insisted that Doklam, or Dong Lang as the Chinese call it, “is part of Chinese territory and has been under Chinese rule for a very long time”, it was silent on whether it would continue with