China's map shows Indian territories, as well as territories claimed by other countries, as its own. India was the first to protest, stating that the claims have no basis.

Indian Defence Minister Rajnath Singh told his Chinese counterpart that the two countries should seek a "permanent solution" ...

India and China have disputed their border for the past seven decades. The two countries fought a brief and bloody war over the demarcation of the border in 1962.

The India-China troop clash of 2020 along the largely unmarked frontier of Ladakh in a disputed border area in the Western Himalayas resulted in the deaths of 20 Indian and four Chinese soldiers ...

While confrontations were once sporadic, they have become more frequent as China and India have constructed roads and other infrastructure along the border. In 2017, they fought over an unpaved road .