Chinese Foreign Minister and State Councillor Wang Yi told (September 1) an international audience in Paris that there will always be problems with India of the kind witnessed in eastern Ladakh because the boundary wasn't demarcated yet even as he claimed China wouldn’t be the first to escalate the situation and was committed to managing all issues through dialogue. "The boundary between China and India has not yet been demarcated, so there will always be problems of this kind. We are ready to manage all kinds of issues through dialogue with the Indian side," Wang Yi said in a statement on August 30, but the transcript for which was released on September 1.

(Comment: Wang Yi is attempting to portray the current tension on the LAC in eastern Ladakh as merely a border clash while it is really much larger.)