evidence: Recent reports and satellite imagery show that the Chinese have constructed a new village inside two kilometres of Bhutanese territory. The village lies on the eastern periphery of the disputed Doklam plateau where, in 2017, India and China were involved in a standoff. The present 470-km-long boundary between Bhutan and China isn’t demarcated and over 25 percent of this border has been disputed for decades. The disputed regions in the northern sectors include 495 sq kms of the Jakurlung and Pasamlung valley in the Wangdue Phodrang district. The other disputed regions include the 269 sq kms of Doklam, Sinchulung, Dramana and Shakhatoe in the Samste, Haa and Paro districts of the northwestern part of Bhutan. The Chinese claim on these areas of Bhutan has been totally dependent on Tibet’s claim and, hence, it is important to understand the historical relations between Tibet and Bhutan to understand the present border dispute between China and Bhutan. [...] The Chinese have often claimed the areas and it was Mao’s five finger policy that claimed this area of Bhutan for the Chinese.