evidence: Days before enacting its Land Border Law, the PRC agreed to a "three-step roadmap" with Bhutan to expedite negotiations to resolve the festering dispute over their 477-kilometer boundary. The PRC claims parts of Bhutan and has never officially recognized, nor even demarcated, Bhutan’s border with Tibet, which China annexed in 1951. In November 2020, the PRC built a village 2 kilometers inside Bhutan and just 9 kilometers from the site of the India-China standoff in Doklam. The confrontation was triggered by the PRC’s attempt to extend a road in an area claimed by Bhutan, which has had a Treaty of Perpetual Peace and Friendship with India since 1949, a pact renewed in 2007. About 60,000 Indian nationals live in Bhutan, with an additional 8,000 to 10,000 visiting the country of about 780,000 daily from border towns to work. India fears that the PRC’s intrusions are an indicator of what it views as "salami slicing," whereby Beijing seeks to scythe through Indian and Bhutanese territory with the intent of redrawing the LAC.