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China annexes more than 150 hectares of Nepal: UK newspaper

Just Earth News | @justearthnews | 03 Nov 2020, 10:40 am Print

China annexes more than 150 hectares of Nepal: UK newspaper China-Nepal

Continuing its aggressive stance, China has annexed more than 150 hectares of Nepal, media reports said.

China allegedly began seizing Nepalese land in five frontier districts in May, sending members of its People's Liberation Army (PLA) across undefended areas of the border, reports UK's The Telegraph newspaper.

The newspaper said in Humla the PLA troops crossed the border into the Limi valley and Hilsa, moving stone pillars which had previously demarcated the boundary further into Nepalese territory before constructing alleged military bases.

The newspaper said it has seen images of the bases.

PLA soldiers also allegedly moved border pillars further into Nepalese territory in the district of Gorkha, the newspaper reported.

Further annexations occurred in the Rasuwa, Sindhupalchowk and Sankhuwasabha districts after Chinese engineers in the Tibet Autonomous Region diverted the flow of rivers acting as a natural boundary and claimed the previously submerged Nepalese territory.

"Why should China come over into Nepal, when China is already sixty times the size of our small country?"  Jeevan Bahadur Shahi, a lawmaker in the Nepali Congress Party, was quoted as saying by The Telegraph.

China, however, rejected the media report.

The country's foreign ministry’s spokesperson Wang Wenbin told reporters: "The report you cited is a completely unfounded rumor."