It seems so strategically dumb for China to keep provoking India on these meaningless pieces of territory. This pushes India towards US.
It would be in China’s strategic interest to keep completely shut and make no indication that it wants to change the status quo with India. I wonder if these fails are not deliberate on China’s part, but a result of rogue (dumb) functionaries not being able to recognize a difference between internal Kool-Aid and the real China’s position.