Chinese and Indian troops face off in Bhutan border dispute

Regional rivalry escalates as forces mobilise near borderland that China claims but India says is in Bhutan

China has said that the withdrawal of Indian troops from a scrap of disputed territory is a precondition for peace as tensions rise in a border row between the two Asian powers that has drawn in tiny Bhutan.

China alleges that the Indian troops are on its soil, but both Bhutan and India say the area in question is Bhutanese territory.

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