China on Saturday issued a "safety advisory" for its citizens traveling to India as well as to its nationals living in India, asking them to pay close attention to personal safety and local security, reports the People’s Daily.
China on Saturday issued a "safety advisory" for its citizens traveling to India as well as to its nationals living in India, asking them to pay close attention to personal safety and local security, reports the People’s Daily.
The advisory was issued through the Chinese embassy in New Delhi. It asked Chinese travellers to India to pay close attention to the security situation and take necessary precautions.
Chinese foreign ministry officials emphasized that it is an "advisory" and not an "alert" that was issued. They didn't clarify the difference, but it's likely an "advisory" is milder than an "alert".
The advisory by China comes a day after Chinese President Xi Jinping met Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi during in informal BRICS meeting in Hamburg , Germany, amidst the lengthy ongoing tension between India and China in Sikkim.
Just two days earlier, China had indicated that it was considering options on issuing a travel alert for citizens visiting India.
As per the new statement released by the Chinese Embassy, Chinese nationals in India have been asked to pay close attention to personal safety as well as local security situation.
There was also a possibility of a slowdown in Chinese investments in India, the state-run Global Times said in a editorial that listed the potential fallout of the border face-off.
‘Violent attacks against Chinese personnel and companies may happen in India if the two countries see even small-scale military tension at the border,’ the article said.
‘Many people believe Indian nationalism led to the country’s independence from British rule decades ago but now it is gradually evolving into an internal factor behind the anti-Chinese sentiment, which is fuelled by ethnic and religious factors.’
‘The Chinese government attaches great importance to safety and lawful rights and interests of overseas Chinese citizens in accordance with the security condition of the relevant countries,’ Foreign Ministry spokesman Geng Shuang was quoted as saying on Wednesday.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi met Chinese President Xi Jinping at the BRICS leaders' informal gathering and had a conversation on 'a range of issues.'
Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) spokesperson Gopal Baglay took to Twitter and posted a picture of the two leaders exchanging pleasantries at the gathering.
"At d BRICS leaders' informal gathering @ Hamburg hosted by China, PM @narendramodi and President Xi had a conversation on a range of issues," Baglay tweeted.
The much anticipated meeting between Prime Minister Modi and Jinping amid the on-going stand-off between India troops and PLA troops at the Doklam.
New Delhi has expressed its serious apprehensions over Beijing constructing a road in the Sikkim sector of the LAC. The two leaders had met last month at the SCO Summit in Astana.
India claims Sikkim border as part of its territory, China has said that the area falls on their side as per the 1890 treaty signed between British and China.
Consequently, China suspended the annual Kailash Manasarovar yatra and conceded that the decision to suspend the pilgrimage was due to the border scuffle.
It also alleged that the Indian troops had crossed the Sikkim sector of the Indo-China border. Beijing has accused New Delhi of violating a convention signed in 1890 between Britain and China relating to Sikkim and Tibet.
Senior Congress leader Kapil Sibal today asked Prime Minister Narendra Modi to make a statement on why India was "eyeball to eyeball" with China after swinging with President Xi Jinping in Sabarmati.
He said the situation on the border with China "was very serious" and the government must spell out its policy on how to defuse the tension.
"These are very sensitive and very serious issues. Who is in power the present BJP is in power. It is for that government to tell us what they wish to do; we only know that from the 'jhoola' at Sabarmati to the present situation there is a big gap - from swinging to being eyeball to eyeball," he said.
"Now it is for the prime minister to make a statement which he has not made so far as to why this has happened and what the country needs to do," Sibal said.
The former Union minister said the Congress was with the government when it came to intrusion by China or Pakistan. "We all stand together," he said.
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