PLA's Road Work Will Raise Security Issues: India

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Troop's from China's People's Liberation Army (PLA) continue to deploy construction equipment in an effort to drive a dirt track through the strategic Doklam plateau despite a three week stand-off with the Indian Army and the Royal Bhutan Army, senior Indian government officials said on Friday.

The PLA's road work's,the officials said, are aimed at bringing a road close to Doka La, India's last military post on the junction of its boundary with Bhutan and China.

In first officials comments on the crisis, New Delhi admitted that its troops had blocked PLA road work inside Bhutan territory claimed by China, saying "such construction would represent a significant change of status quo with serious security implications with India".

Both sides have reinforced their positions amidst a continuing war of words between Beijing and New Delhi. Indian military officials rejected claims that there were signs of imminent conflict in the region-the site of intense skirmishes in 1967, provoked by similar disputes over border works.

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