did not corroborate these observations. Rather it said that hundreds of Twitter hashtags were created to rally support for India and that there was a significant blowback over the Xinhua television programme titled "7 sins" that castigated India. Scholar Rudra Chaudhuri, having toured the country, noted that Doklam is not as important an issue for the Bhutanese as it might have been ten years ago. Rather the Bhutanese view a border settlement with China as the top priority for the country. While he noticed terms such as "pro-Chinese" and "anti-Indian" often used, he said that what they meant was not well-understood. Disengagement On 28 August 2017, it was announced that India and China had mutually agreed to a speedy disengagement on the Doklam plateau bringing an end to the military face-off that lasted for close to three months. The Chinese foreign ministry sidestepped the question of whether China would continue the road construction. Aftermath Chinese forces reportedly returned to Doklam Plateau in September 2018 and had nearly completed their road construction by January 2019, along with other infrastructure. On 19 November 2020, a Chinese CGTN News producer tweeted that China has constructed a village called Pangda approximately 9 km from Doklam and about 2 km within the territory of Bhutan. See also Bhutan–China Sakteng border dispute Bhutan–China border Bhutan–China relations Bhutan–India relations China–India relations Sino-Indian border dispute Five Fingers of Tibet China's salami slicing Notes References Bibliography Secondary sources Primary sources External links Doklam area marked on OpenStreetMap Convention Between Great Britain and China relating to Sikkim & Tibet Neville Maxwell, THIS IS INDIA'S CHINA WAR, ROUND TWO, 14 July 2017 Manoj Joshi, India and China after the Doklam Standoff (video), Hudson Institute, 16 November 2017 Bhutan–China relations Bhutan–India relations Bhutan–China border China–India relations Disputed territories in Asia Territorial disputes of China China–India border