China claims vindication after VK Singh's LAC remarks

DELHI: Minister VK's Singh remark that India has crossed LAC more often than China turned into a convenient stick for Beijing to attack India with Monday as it described India's alleged transgressions as the root cause of the current border tensions.

In response to a question, which the Chinese foreign ministry claimed was raised after the daily press conference, spokesperson Wang Wenbin said Singh's remarks were an "unwitting confession" by the Indian side.

Both sides have blamed each other for the 10-month-old military standoff with the government having held all along, and as it informed Parliament last week, that the Chinese since April/May last year have made several attempts to unilaterally change the status quo along the LAC in western sector. MoS for state transport and highways Singh, who is also former army chief and minister of state for external Affairs, had offered no clarification for his remarks, seen by some here as a self-goal, until late in the evening.