Army chief General Dalbir Singh Suhag has cancelled his four-day official visit to Bhutan in the wake of the stand-off with the Chinese troops at the border.

The army has deployed about 2,000 soldiers at Chumur in South Eastern Ladakh where they are locked in a face-off with around 1,000 soldiers from the Chinese People's Liberation Army .

As the face-off at Demchok and Chumur entered the 12th day, Chinese President Xi Jinping yesterday demanded "absolute loyalty" from PLA's top brass. "Headquarters of all People's Liberation Army forces should improve their combat readiness and sharpen their ability to win a regional war in the age of information technology," Xi, who returned from India last week after a three-day visit, was quoted as saying by the state-run Xinhua news agency.