It’s clear that Bhutan’s economic opening threatens India’s influence. Asked about the prospect of Chinese investment, Lotay replies that “the GMC will have absolutely no exclusion criteria.” Indeed, ...

Citing a recent report by research associate Robert Barnett, the Indian newspaper said that since 2016, when China first built a village in territory understood to be part of Bhutan, Beijing has ...

Seven years after Chinese troops pulled out of the strategic Doklam plateau in Bhutan, Beijing has surreptitiously built at least 22 villages and settlements in the region, according to a recent ...

At Bhutan's request, Indian troops crossed the ... a Chinese-controlled route to Gymochen would represent a power creep that would bring Beijing's sphere of control unacceptably close to home.

They were built in an area that, according to historians, was ceded to Bhutan by the then ruler of Tibet in 1913. Ashok Kantha, who served as India’s envoy to Beijing during 2014-16 and is an ...

The plateau, which lies at a junction between China, the north-eastern Indian state of Sikkim and the Himalayan kingdom of Bhutan, is disputed between Beijing and Bhutan. India supports Bhutan's ...

Indeed, Beijing has repeatedly voiced its intent to normalize relations, and the prospect of a growing Chinese footprint in Bhutan has New Delhi “crapping themselves,” one former top Bhutanese ...