China's defense ministry expressed its "dissatisfaction and opposition" Thursday over the crash of an Indian unmanned aerial vehicle inside Chinese territory, the latest in a series of border incidents between the regional rivals. A spokesman for the Chinese Foreign Ministry said the drone crashed in the Sikkim section of China's border with India and that China has lodged a complaint with India over the issue. And Chinese side along the border line is Chinese territory," spokesman Geng Shuang said. Anand said Indian border security personnel immediately alerted their Chinese counterparts and said India was investigating the exact cause of the incident. Much of the 3,500-kilometer (2,174-mile) border between China and India is contested.

Source: ABC News December 07, 2017 07:47 UTC