China chides India over new border posts

BEIJING, Oct 30 (AP): China's Defence Ministry cautioned New Delhi on Thursday over Indian plans to construct 54 new border posts along an eastern stretch of their disputed frontier.

Spokesman Yang Yujun said China urged India to do more to maintain peace and stability in the area and "not to do things that may complicate the situation."

The long-festering border dispute continues to bedevil relations between the giant Asian neighbors - armed with nuclear weapons and with 2.6 billion people between them - despite a recent warming of relations.

Suspicions date from a monthlong border war in 1962 that killed about 2,000 soldiers. That conflict ended in a standoff with each side accusing the other of occupying its territory.