Border 'confrontation' reports dismissed

Beijing dismissed reports of a border standoff between Chinese and Indian troops on Monday, asking for clarification from the Indians.

According to Indian media, troops from the two countries faced off on the Sino-Indian border after the Indo-Tibetan Border Police and Indian army reportedly demolished a surveillance structure being erected by the People's Liberation Army inside the Line of Actual Control.

"As far as I know, there is no so-called 'confrontation' in the border area of China and India," Foreign Ministry spokesman Hong Lei said at a daily news conference in Beijing.