China's aggression on Sikkim standoff unusual, Jaishankar tells MPs

New Delhi : India on Tuesday briefed top diplomats of a few foreign missions individually in New Delhi about the current Sino-Indian military in the Doklam area of Bhutan, and foreign secretary S Jaishankar reportedly told a parliamentary panel that China's stand in the Sikkim sector has been unusually "aggressive" and articulate.

Jaishankar, while briefing the panel on external affairs, maintained that New Delhi is engaged with Beijing in defusing the tension through diplomatic channels.

Some TV channels reported that Jaishankar had advocated a "deep breath, stop



and engage" policy as a way of resolving the matter, indicating that both countries would have to talk it out and solve the matter.

New Delhi briefed top diplomats of a few foreign countries in New Delhi after China had carried out a similar exercise of briefing foreign diplomats in Beijing about the standoff last week.

It is learnt that foreign missions in New Delhi, worried about the standoff, requested that they be updated. New Delhi is keeping the diplomats of United States, Russia, Britain, France, Japan and Germany in the loop about developments on the border.