New Delhi: With Prime Minister Manmohan Singh now on an official visit to China, Army Chief General Deepak Kapoor today had to do a tight-rope walk while fielding media questions on Chinese Army intrusions into India last year.

"We have a perception of Line of Actual Control (LoAC) and similarly do the Chinese have. What is an intrusion to us, is the perception of LoAC for Chinese and vice-versa," Gen Kapoor said during a media interaction on the eve of 60th Army day being held tomorrow.

"Now whether such attempts have gone up, I would like to say that they are the same. The number of times we have gone upto our perception of LoAC, they have done so as well," Gen Kapoor said trying to ward of probing questions on the issue.

He refused to elaborate and also refrained from giving the number of such incidents.

India says China is illegally occupying 43,180 sq kms of Jammu and Kashmir including 5,180 sq km illegally ceded to Beijing by Islamabad under the Sino-Pakistan boundary agreement in 1963. On the other hand, China accuses India of possessing some 90,000 sq km of Chinese territory, mostly in Arunachal Pradesh.

Asked about the Chinese interference in neighbouring Bhutan, Gen Kapoor said it was a matter between Bhutan, China and India to some extent which should be handled through diplomatic channels.

Source : PTI