China warns India against "forced decoupling" of its economies

The statement came after recent central government moves to ban Chinese candidacies, even as the de facto border, the real line of control, remains strained.

New Delhi:

New Delhi:

China on Thursday warned that a "forced separation" of its economy with India, after a clash in the Gallowan Valley in eastern Ladakh last month, in which 20 Indian soldiers were killed while carrying out their duties, would harm the two countries. 

The Chinese ambassador said that China is not a strategic threat to India, and that "the overall structure in which we cannot live without each other remains unchanged."

The statement came after recent central government moves to ban Chinese demands, even as the border tensions, the de facto control line, continued.

"China calls for win-win cooperation and opposes zero-sum game," Ambassador Sun Weidong wrote on Twitter.

He added: "Our economies are highly integrated, interdependent and interrelated.

 Forced separation is against the trend and will only lead to a" loss - loss "result.

Officials say Chinese forces stormed India's lands in the remote western region.

 But China claims that it did not violate Latin America and the Caribbean.