By Li Hongmei

At Tuesday's regular press conference, Chinese foreign ministry spokeswoman Hua Chunying replied to a question concerning the recent border situation between China and India, and whether the Chinese patrols have ever trespassed the border line.

She was cited as saying:  "I want to reiterate that China and India relations have been developing on good momentum and the two sides have kept sound interaction and cooperation on the border issue".

She reiterated that there had been no incursion by the Chinese troops.

"China's frontier troops have been abiding by the agreement between the two countries and abiding by the LAC agreed by the two countries," she had said on Monday. "Our frontier troops have been patrolling on the China's side of LAC," Hua had said, adding, "Our troops are patrolling on the Chinese side of the LAC and have never trespassed the line".

On the other hand, India expects the border issue with China to blow over, as the Indian media coverage has been playing up the "border situation", which says Chinese and Indian soldiers have been facing off ever since Chinese troops crossed over 10 km into the Indian side in what is called the Depsang area on April 15.

According to Indian officials, a Chinese patrol pitched camp on April 15 on the Indian side of the LAC in the Depsang area, a mountainous desert region near the Karakoram Pass linking China to Pakistan.

Then the media hype ensues, which says patrolling parties of both countries find themselves literally face- to- face because of differing perceptions of the LAC.