Even senior Indian officials have openly stated that Chinese troops did not enter into the Indian territory, Wang said.
NSA Doval is set to travel to Beijing this week to attend the BRICS NSAs meeting scheduled to be held from July 27-28
The move took place late last month and involved hardware being moved simultaneously by road and rail from across the entire region.
Experts said the direction is meant to maintain party unity.
The article in the Global Times said that if India "stirs up conflicts in several spots, it must face the consequence of an all-out confrontation with China along the entire LAC."
The brigade that conducted the drills was from the PLA's Tibet Military Command and is one of China's two plateau mountain brigades.
'This is the first time that active PLA army personnel would be reduced to below one million,' PLA Daily said.
India said that "a range of issues" were discussed by the two leaders.
This is the first time Pakistan and Kashmir have been brought into the narrative.
The advisory asked to pay close attention to the security situation and take necessary precautions.
The B-1B Lancer bombers from Guam airbase flew over South China Sea on late Thursday as part of operations intended to demonstrate the US commitment to freedom of navigation, the US Air Force said in a statement.
The exercises also involve combat operations command, combat synergies, live fire shooting training, and comprehensive inspection of arms integration, the report said.
But Modi and Xi will attend a BRICS leaders meeting in Hamburg.
China on Wednesday accused India of "trampling" on the Panchsheel principles and asked New Delhi to "correct its mistakes" as soon as possible by pulling back troops.
While China's nationalistic tabloid Global Times said India should be taught a 'bitter lesson', another official newspaper, China Daily, said India should look in the mirror.
Hu Zhiyong, a research fellow at the Shanghai Academy of Social Science, claimed that India is provoking China because it wanted to prove to the United States that it could contain China while Prime Minister Narendra Modi was in the US.
It also dismissed Jaitley's remarks that India of 2017 is different from what it was in 1962, saying China too is different.
China will resolutely safeguard its border sovereignty in conflicts with Indian troops even at the cost of war, GT said.
Observers say China's repeated invitations to India to join the BRI highlights its own anxieties over the adverse impact of New Delhi's lack of support to the multi-billion dollar investments in South Asia as it would deny access to India's market consisting over 1.2 billion people.
Chinese foreign ministry spokesman displayed the photographs of the alleged Indian "incursion" into the area during a media briefing.
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