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China connected Monday (January 12, 2026) reaffirmed its territorial claims implicit the Shaksgam Valley successful the backdrop of India's objections, stressing that the Chinese infrastructure projects successful the country are "beyond reproach".
India past Friday (January 9) criticised China's infrastructure improvement projects successful the Shaksgam Valley, saying it reserves the close to instrumentality indispensable measures to safeguard its interests arsenic it is an Indian territory.
Pakistan illegally ceded 5,180 sq km of Indian territory successful the Shaksgam Valley to China successful 1963 from areas illegally occupied by it.
"Shaksgam Valley is Indian territory. We person ne'er recognised the alleged China-Pakistan 'boundary agreement' signed successful 1963. We person consistently maintained that the statement is amerciable and invalid," External Affairs Ministry spokesperson Randhir Jaiswal said.
“We besides bash not recognise the alleged China-Pakistan Economic Corridor, which passes done Indian territory that is nether forcible and amerciable concern of Pakistan,” helium said.
Mr. Jaiswal said that the full Union Territories of Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh are an integral and inalienable portion of India. "This has been intelligibly conveyed to Pakistani and Chinese authorities respective times," helium added.
Reacting to Mr. Jaiswal's comments, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Mao Ning told a media briefing successful Beijing that “the territory you mentioned belongs to China”.
"It’s afloat justified for China to behaviour infrastructure operation connected its ain territory. China and Pakistan successful the 1960s signed a bound statement and delimited the bound betwixt the 2 countries, which is the close of China and Pakistan arsenic sovereign countries,” she said.
On India's disapproval of the CPEC, Ms. Mao repeated Beijing's communicative that it is an economical practice initiative, aimed astatine promoting section socioeconomic improvement and improving people’s livelihood.
"The China-Pakistan bound statement and CPEC bash not impact China’s presumption connected the Kashmir contented and the presumption remains unchanged," she said.
China’s authoritative basal connected the Kashmir issue, arsenic often reiterated by Beijing, is that “Jammu and Kashmir quality is near implicit from history, and should beryllium decently and peacefully resolved successful accordance with the UN Charter, applicable U.N. Security Council resolutions and bilateral agreements”.
The 1963 statement ceding the territory of Pakistan-occupied Kashmir (POK) was important for Pakistan and China arsenic it provided a communal bound for them, which different would person had nary borders.
The statement besides has a clause that stipulates that aft the colony of Kashmir quality betwixt Pakistan and India, the sovereign authorization volition reopen negotiations with the authorities of China to motion a ceremonial bound treaty.
