That technique has actually been mainly absent up until now. The silence from both New Delhi and Beijing has actually been seen by observers as suggesting a desire to keep space for de-escalation, although that might change the longer the stand-off continues.
In 2017, Chinese experts had actually described the Doklam stand-off as being qualitatively various from other India-China border scenarios as it was not occurring on territory disputed between the 2 nations. China was stressing in declarations then that India had crossed the border into Bhutan, on land that is challenged between Bhutan and China and to which India had no claims.
That is not the case in this instance, although experts have stated the current tensions are likewise unprecedented in their own method, offered the heavy deployments, simultaneous stand-of