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BEIJING: China’s top legislature voted to adopt the country’s first national law on the protection and exploitation of the country’s land

China's top legislature voted to adopt the country's first national law on the protection and exploitation of the country's land border areas, which aims to better maintain national security and manage border-related matters at the legal level amid regional tensions, including the frictions with India, legal experts and internal affairs scholars told the Global Times on Sunday.

Whether Bhutan and China could yield any results on the border negotiations, there needs to be a full-scale improvement in China-India relations, Zhang Jiadong, professor at the Center for American Studies of Fudan University, told the Global Times, adding that now, there should not be an over optimistic view on the progress in China-Bhutan relations considering the numerous challenges that lay ahead.

Former Indian envoy to China Vijay K. Nambiar was speaking at a webinar hosted by Institute of Chinese Studies on linkages between Tawang region in Arunachal Pradesh, and Bhutan.

I read a stimulating essay recently co-authored by Paul Dolan, professor at the London School of Economics, and his research assistant Amanda Hedwood