An indian drone has "invaded china's airspace and crashed" on its territory, chinese language country media stated.
Zhang shuili, deputy director of the western theatre combat bureau, stated the incident happened in "current days". He did now not provide an actual region.
He turned into quoted in xinhua information organisation as saying that india had "violated china's territorial sovereignty".
The indian army stated the drone were deployed on a schooling task and advanced a technical trouble.
Indian army spokesperson colonel aman anand advised reporters that they'd lost manage of the drone which then crossed into chinese airspace. They alerted their chinese language opposite numbers quickly after, he delivered.
The 2 countries saw relations get worse this summer time after they became locked in a dispute over a himalayan plateau.
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In comments carried broadly via kingdom media outlets, mr zhang said chinese border forces had performed "verifications" of the drone.
He added that china expresses "our robust dissatisfaction and competition concerning this count number" and that it might "steadfastly shield the usa's rights and protection".
Relations between the two countries soured in june when india stated it hostile a chinese try and enlarge a avenue on the doklam/donglang plateau, at the border of china, india and bhutan.
China and bhutan have competing claims on the plateau, and india supports bhutan's claim.
After weeks of escalating tensions, including heated rhetoric from both aspects, the stand-off led to august whilst both countries pulled returned their troops.
The two nations fought a sour conflict over the border in 1962, and disputes remain unresolved in several areas which purpose tensions to rise periodically.
