BEIJING: Notwithstanding the Doklam standoff, Chinese military analysts say that India and China should sign a new boundary convention in the Sikkim sector to replace the 1890 Great Britain-China agreement and make it more contemporary. It is better we change the signatures of the convention, that is what I mean early harvest," he said. So, we want to start from the easiest, that is what we call early harvest," he added.The Chinese foreign ministry too in its August 2 fact-sheet on Doklam standoff referred to Beijing's expectations of an "early harvest" in the Sikkim sector. "The boundary in the Sikkim sector has long been delimited by the 1890 Convention, which was signed between then China and Great Britain. China and India ought to sign a new boundary convention in their own names to replace the 1890 Convention.

Source: Times of India August 10, 2017 08:26 UTC