There is an opinion in the Indian soil that her disputes with the Islamic Republic of Pakistan are unending and these have to be solved first in order to ensure her own prolonged existence. What they do fail to realize is that India-China border dispute is of no lesser significance and on the contrary is more sinister in appearance and content. Even copious numbers of Indian journalists, scholars, strategic experts were having the same erroneous views till the other day. Definitely a change of wind has taken place; Indian governmental structure and press and media are getting more and more serious of the reigning India-China border dispute and its potentially gruesome impacts.
Contrary to beliefs of the majority of Indians, India-China border dispute is not the fallout of war of 1962 between these two countries only (albeit fortified without a doubt) but was evident in the preceding decade of 1950s also.
In accordance with available records, boundary dispute over McMahon Line happens to affect relations of China with India to a large extent. It is no longer a secret that China has an assortment of boundary disputes with 14 of its neighboring countries, mainly for historic factors and with the passing of years this has got strengthened only. It is also to be noted that Chinese has been maintaining two imperative claims, considered by the Indian government as parts of its own dominion.
One of these is in India’s western sphere and it is nothing else than Aksai Chin positioned in the northeastern division of Ladakh, in the state India-controlled Kashmir. Second assertion of right of China is on the Indian state of Arunachal Pradesh, originally a region incorporated in the North-East Frontier Agency (NEFA) of British India. Even though in the war of 1962 the ill-equipped Indian Army was, in reality, humiliated, apart from getting heavily thrashed by the Chinese People’s Liberation Army, the disputes refused to end and have been continuing relentlessly.
Contrary to beliefs of the majority of Indians, India-China border dispute is not the fallout of war of 1962 between these two countries only (albeit fortified without a doubt) but was evident in the preceding decade of 1950s also.
In accordance with available records, boundary dispute over McMahon Line happens to affect relations of China with India to a large extent. It is no longer a secret that China has an assortment of boundary disputes with 14 of its neighboring countries, mainly for historic factors and with the passing of years this has got strengthened only. It is also to be noted that Chinese has been maintaining two imperative claims, considered by the Indian government as parts of its own dominion.
One of these is in India’s western sphere and it is nothing else than Aksai Chin positioned in the northeastern division of Ladakh, in the state India-controlled Kashmir. Second assertion of right of China is on the Indian state of Arunachal Pradesh, originally a region incorporated in the North-East Frontier Agency (NEFA) of British India. Even though in the war of 1962 the ill-equipped Indian Army was, in reality, humiliated, apart from getting heavily thrashed by the Chinese People’s Liberation Army, the disputes refused to end and have been continuing relentlessly.
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