#India China border dispute

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India and China: A New Era of Diplomacy Amid Lingering Tensions

Can India and China truly overcome past tensions for a stable future? 🕊️ As diplomatic talks resume post-Galwan, new opportunities and risks emerge. Explore the evolving dynamics of Asia's powerhouses. Read more for in-depth insights! 👉

[shuksrp]

India and China have achieved a comprehensive disengagement agreement

[merisarkar]

India-China Agree to Disengage at Ladakh Border: MEA

India-China Agree to Disengage Troops in Ladakh: In a significant step towards easing tensions along their disputed Himalayan border, India Monday announced on that it has reached a mutual agreement with China to disengage their troops from several friction points in the Ladakh region. The decision, based on a statement made by India’s External Affairs Secretary, Vikram Misri, marks a crucial…

[rudrjobdesk]

Indo-China Relation: Why Are India-China Relations Not Improving Despite Increasing Trade, Tension On The Border Will Affect Relations, Know History Of'Hindi-Chini Bhai-Bhai'

Indo-China Relation: Why Are India-China Relations Not Improving Despite Increasing Trade, Tension On The Border Will Affect Relations, Know History Of’Hindi-Chini Bhai-Bhai’

India China Relation: हाल के कुछ वर्षों में भारत-चीन (India-China) के संबंध सबसे बुरे दौर में पहुंच चुका है. अरुणाचल प्रदेश के तवांग (Tawang) में चीन की सैनिकों ��े जो उकसावे वाली कार्रवाई की है, उस पर भारत में तो संसद से सड़क तक चर्चा हो ही रही है. अंतर्राष्ट्रीय नजरिए से भी ये मुद्दा बहुत बड़ा बन गया है. अमेरिका के साथ ही संयुक्त राष्ट्र ने भी इस घटना पर अपनी प्रतिक्रिया दी है. दरअसल इस वक्त…

[hongjoongscafe]

Shein controversies are so fucking wild. I'm making a PPT for my seminar and I have no tension about reaching the minimum slides requirements. And I wonder why people still use it. I understand the “cheap” part. But what about the harmful chemicals and lead in the clothes? Or forced labour? Or design theft? Etc…. There are many other cheaper and more sustainable alternatives. I would use them.

And those “influencers” who buy Shein in bulk and then throw them away?! And now making “sheglam” famous. In return for what? Your own health? Those poor labours’ life?

[defencestar]

Indian Army Resumes Patrolling in Eastern Ladakh's Demchok

India-China Border News: New Delhi, November 1, 2024, – The Indian Army has resumed patrolling activities in the strategically important Demchok sector of Eastern Ladakh. This development comes days after India and China successfully completed disengagement at two friction points in the region: Demchok and Depsang Plains. The disengagement process, which concluded earlier this week, marked a…

[todayworldnews2k21]

India, China Reach Broad Consensus For LAC Disengagement, Says Rajnath Singh

Defence Minister Rajnath Singh announced on Thursday that India and China have reached a “broad consensus” on restoring ground conditions along specific areas of the Line of Actual Control (LAC). “India and China have been holding talks at both diplomatic and military levels to resolve the differences in some areas along the LAC,” Singh said. “As a result of these talks, a broad consensus was…

[prakhar0017]

भारत और चीन के युद्ध की शुरुआत कहां से हुई?

आज हम बात करेंगे, दो ऐसे पड़ोसियों की जो एशिया के साथ-साथ पूरी दुनिया में एक बहुत ऊंचा मुकाम रखते है। टाइटल से यह स्पष्ट समझा जा सकता है कि बात यहां पर भारत और चीन के विषय में ही होने वाली है, तो आइए बेझिझक और बिना लाग लपेट मुद्दे पर आते है। भारत-चीन का युद्ध खासतौर से 1962 में कई कारणों से हुआ था। शुरू से ही पाकिस्तान का हमदर्द रहा चीन भारत को खुद से आगे बढ़ता हुआ नहीं देख सका। हालांकि, 1962 का…

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India and China Agree on Disengagement and Patrolling Arrangements Along LAC: A Step Towards Border Stability

India and China Agree on Disengagement and Patrolling Arrangements Along LAC: A Step Towards Border Stability In a significant development in India-China relations, the two nations have reached an agreement to disengage their troops and establish new patrolling arrangements along the Line of Actual Control (LAC). This decision, announced by India’s Foreign Secretary Vikram Misri, marks a crucial…

[dylsexai]

One of my new favourite things is learning that Chinese and Indian soldiers on the border have to use sticks if things heat up and they have to get violent.

Yes, there's some footage of 400-4000 military guys just hitting each other with sticks

[daily-current-affairs]

China passes new land border law

India-China Dispute: चीन की नेशनल पीपुल्स कांग्रेस के स्थाई सदस्यों की तरफ से नया भूमि सीमा कानून पास किया गया है. भारत के साथ वास्तविक नियंत्रण रेखा (एलएसी) पर चल रही तनातनी के बीच चीन ने नई चाल चली है. इस कानून के अंतर्गत चीन सीमावर्ती इलाकों में अपनी दखल बढ़ाने जा रहा है. वे इन इलाकों में आम नागरिकों को बसाने की तैयारी कर रहा है, जिससे किसी भी अन्य देश के लिए इन इलाकों में सैन्य कार्रवाई और भी…

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USA Reacts to India - China Border Clash In Arunachal Pradesh

USA Reacts to India- China Border Clash In Arunachal Pradesh #borderdispute #china #india

The India-China border had a clash recently where people were hurt during the face-off. People faced minor injuries on Friday in Arunachal Pradesh. Personals were hurt from both sides. The USA reacted to the clash The white house administered by the Biden government, USA reacted to the India-China border clash. They said that India and China should quickly disengage from the clash in the Tawang…

[gacorley]

Guess what border has multiple territorial disputes that are still ongoing.

Guess which border is longer than the US-Mexico border

[mapsontheweb]

China has 22,800km of land borders, more than any other country. In addition, all eight of its maritime borders are disputed. And China’s neighbours include big economic and military powers, such as India and Russia, with their own regional ambitions.

[mariacallous]

In the waters of the South China Sea, Chinese coast guard vessels have clashed with Philippine ships. In the air above the Taiwan Strait, Chinese warplanes have challenged Taiwanese jet fighters. And in the valleys of the Himalayas, Chinese troops have fought Indian soldiers.

Across several frontiers, China has been using its armed forces to dispute territory not internationally recognized as part of China but nevertheless claimed by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP).

In August 2023, Beijing laid out its current territorial claims for the world to see. The new edition of the standard map of China includes lands that are today a part of India and Russia, along with island territories such as Taiwan and comprehensive stretches of the East and South China Seas that are also claimed by Brunei, Indonesia, Japan, Malaysia, the Philippines, and Vietnam.

China often invokes historical narratives to justify these claims. Beijing, for example, has said that the Japanese-administered Senkaku Islands, which it claims under the name of the Diaoyu Islands, “have been an inherent territory of China since ancient times.” Chinese officials have used the same words to back China’s right to parts of the northeastern Indian state of Arunachal Pradesh. The Chinese government also claims that its sovereignty over the South China Sea is based on its own historic maritime maps.

However, in certain periods since ancient times China has also held sway over other states in the region—Mongolia, North Korea, South Korea, and Vietnam. Yet Beijing is currently not laying claim to any of these.

Instead, Beijing has embraced a selective irredentism, wielding specific chapters of China’s historical record when they suit existing aims and leaving former Chinese territories be when they don’t. Over time, as Beijing’s interests and power relations have shifted, some of these claims have faded from importance, while new ones have taken their place. Yet for Taiwan, Chinese claims remain unchanged, as the fate of the island state is tied to the very legitimacy of the CCP as well as the vitality of Chinese President Xi Jinping’s political vision.

Many of the CCP’s territorial claims have roots in the 19th and 20th centuries during the late rule of the Qing Dynasty. Following diplomatic pressure and repeated military defeats, the Qing Dynasty was forced to cede territory to several Western colonial powers, as well as the Russian and Japanese empires. These concessions are part of what are known in China as the “unequal treaties,” while the 100 years in which the treaties were signed and enforced are known as the “century of humiliation.” These territorial losses eventually passed from the dynasty to the Republic of China and then, following the Chinese Civil War, to the CCP. As a result, upon the CCP’s establishment of the People’s Republic of China in 1949, the new Chinese state inherited outstanding territorial disputes with most of its neighbors.

But despite the humiliation the Qing Dynasty’s losses had caused, the CCP proved willing to compromise and reduce its territorial aims during times of high internal unrest. Following the Tibetan uprising in 1959, for instance, the CCP negotiated territorial settlements with countries bordering the Tibet region, including Myanmar, Nepal, and India. Similarly, when unrest rocked the Uyghur region in the 1960s and ‘90s, Beijing pursued territorial compromises with several bordering countries such as Afghanistan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, and Tajikistan. In the aftermath of the Great Leap Forward in the early 1960s and the 1989 Tiananmen Square Massacre, the CCP also pursued territorial settlements with Mongolia, Laos, and Vietnam in the hopes of securing China’s borders during times of domestic instability. Instead of pursuing diversionary wars, the CCP relied on diplomacy to settle border and territory disputes.

But China has changed quite a lot since then. In recent years, the CCP has avoided the inflammatory domestic political chaos of previous decades, and its once-tentative hold over border regions, such as Tibet and the Uyghur region, has been replaced by an iron grip. With this upper hand, the CCP has little incentive to pursue peaceful resolutions to remaining territorial disputes.

“China’s national power has increased significantly, reducing the benefits of compromise and enabling China to drive a much harder bargain,” said M. Taylor Fravel, a political science professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

In this context, the CCP has expanded its irredentist ambitions. After the discovery of potential oil reserves around the Senkaku Islands, and the United States’ return of the islands to Japan in the 1970s, Beijing drew on its historical record to lay claim to the islands, even though it had previously referred to them as part of the Japanese Ryukyu Islands. Similarly, though Beijing and Moscow settled a dispute over Heixiazi Island, located along China’s northeastern border, in 2004, the 2023 map of China depicted the entire island (ceded, along with vast Pacific territories, by the Qing Dynasty to the Russian Empire in 1860) as part of its domain, much to the ire of the Russian Foreign Ministry.

Collin Koh Swee Lean, a senior fellow with the S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies at the Nanyang Technological University in Singapore, argues that the Chinese mapping of Heixiazi Island shows that Beijing holds on to certain core interests and simply waits for the opportune time to assert them.

“Given the current context of the war in Ukraine and Russia’s increased dependence on China, it might have appeared to Beijing that it has the chips in its pockets because, after all, Moscow needs Beijing more than the other way around,” Koh said on the German Marshall Fund’s China Global podcast.

This raises the question of whether territorial disputes that were settled during times of CCP weakness can be revisited and become subject to irredentist ambitions should power balances shift in China’s favor.

According to Steve Tsang, the director of the China Institute at the University of London’s School of Oriental and African Studies, there is currently a limit to how far the CCP will push territorial claims against Russia, since President Xi will need Russian support to sustain his grand ambitions for Chinese leadership on the global stage.

Although it would be a long shot, even Russia may not be safe from these ambitions indefinitely. Given that large swaths of Russia’s Pacific territories were part of China until 1860, “China could claim back the Russian Far East when it deems the time is right,” Tsang said. Such control would grant Beijing unrestricted access to the region’s abundance of coal, timber, tin, and gold while moving it geographically closer to its ambition of becoming an Arctic power.

While there is plenty of historical evidence pointing to former Chinese control over the southeastern portion of the Russian Far East, the historical record is less unequivocal about Chinese control over Taiwan. Anything resembling mainland Chinese control over Taiwan was not established until after 1684 by the Qing Dynasty, and even then central authority remained weak. In 1895, the Qing Dynasty ceded Taiwan to the Empire of Japan following the First Sino-Japanese War, and by the time Chinese authority was restored in 1945, Taiwan had undergone several decades of Japanization.

These details have not prevented the CCP from claiming that Taiwan has been an inalienable part of China since ancient times. Yet more than any other irredentist claim, Xi has made unification with Taiwan a major component of his vision to rejuvenate the Chinese nation.

Unification, however, has little to do with ancient history and more to do with the challenge that Taiwan presently poses to Xi’s aims, according to Chong Ja Ian, an associate professor who teaches about Chinese foreign policy at the National University of Singapore.

“The CCP pursues a Chinese nationalism that emphasizes unity and homogeneity centered around the CCP leadership while they also often claim that their single-party rule is acceptable to Chinese people,” Chong said.

In contrast, Taiwan holds free elections in which multiple political parties compete for the favor of a people that have increasingly developed an identity distinct from mainland China.

“The Taiwanese experience is a clear affront to the CCP narrative,” Chong said.

Control over Taiwan is also attractive to Beijing because it is key to unlocking the Chinese leadership’s broader ambition of maritime hegemony in waters where almost half of the world’s container fleet passed through in 2022.

As with the case of Taiwan, the CCP’s historical arguments regarding its claims on island groups and islets in the East and South China Seas are likewise much weaker than many of its land-based claims.

Instead, Chinese territorial intransigence in the maritime arena is more about a strategic shift in the value of the seas around China, Fravel said.

Today, it has been estimated that more than 21 percent of global trade passes through the South China Sea. And beneath these waters are not only subsea cables that carry sensitive internet data but also vast estimated reserves of oil and natural gas.

Although it may say otherwise, Beijing’s unwillingness to let up on its tenuous territorial maritime claims suggests that China is pursuing long-held ambitions and global aspirations rather than attempting to reverse past losses. So long as the CCP wields its historical record selectively and changeably to serve its aims—and is willing to back its claims up with military action—China’s neighbors will remain at risk.

[snixx]

can i say something that might get me cancelled if i said it irl. why are we (indians but more specifically the indian governement) so obsessed with border and military disputes our country is literally twice the size of the entire continent of europe and/or the cumulative size of oceania and the americas put together population wise. as far as i know most of the people from these territories aren't really begging to be a part of india either why do we need such a massive fucking military budget over this shit "they can't stay independent pakistan or china will pounce if they don't belong to us anymore" don't you think that's THEIR choice and prerogative. they aren't asking to be a part of india. "if pakistan gets kashmir they will keep taking and taking and india will be in ruins" you sound like a conspiracy theorist. kashmir has never unanimously wanted to be a part of india. don't we have enough problems to worry about people are literally starving and homeless everywhere in our country. decentralisation isn't the worst thing that could happen to a territory right now we're too big and diverse a country is an indian identity we're forcing on them really the most important thing right now