what are the issues at the border between china and India
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India and china don't have well defined boundaries... India follows McMahon line made by Britishers while China don't they claim Sikkim and Arunachal Pradesh as their part.”
China has rejected “McMahon Line” in India’s case but accepted it in settling boundary dispute with Myanmar.
According to Dai Bingguo, “Even British colonialists who drew the illegal McMahon Line respected China’s jurisdiction over Tawang and admitted that Tawang was part of China’s Tibet.”
THE DISPUTE
India sees China as occupying 38,000 sq km of its territory in Aksai Chin, while China claims 90,000 sq km in Arunachal Pradesh.
Presently the disputed territory between China and India is primarily the Arunachal and Tawang in the Eastern Sector and Aksai Chin in the Western Sector. China is in the possession Aksai Chin, while India has occupied Arunachal, which Chinese claim to be Southern Tibet and Tawang.
Arunachal (Eastern-Southern Tibet) and Tawang are rich in resources, but, its biggest flaw is it is easy to attack but hard to defend. Since Southern Tibet and Tawang are closer to India’s plains, troop movements and logistics would be easy for India compared to China.
Although Aksai Chin’s terrain is extremely inhospitable but very important. It is located at the high grounds in Central Asia, close to the capital and central cities of India. In the event of hostilities between India and China, China’s heavy equipment units could rumble down through the Aksai Chin, and easily run over New Delhi,
Aksai Chin is closer to the disputed area between India and Pakistan. In the event of an India-Pakistan war, China can effectively support Pakistan and render India between Scylla and Charybdis. Therefore, we have to see the value of Aksai Chin keeping in mind the overall interest of the country. Its value is much higher than the value of Southern Tibet and Tawang.
By holding Aksai Chin, India has been perpetually enslaved to China.
CHINESE Insurgence
For reasons best known to them, the successive governments have not come clean on the extent of Chinese incursions in Ladakh, consistently playing them down.
One-third part of the Pangong Tso lake lies in India while the remaining two-third lies in Tibet.
Sources say, “Chinese have brought in the artillery and fast patrol boats. They are aggressively patrolling the lake. Over 20 Chinese boats had made a 10 km deep incursion on the Indian side of the lake in April 2013. There are even reports in the Chinese media about the induction of a nuclear submarine.”
These incursions were simultaneously backed by Chinesetroops on the road built alongside the Pangong lake which took place in eastern Ladakh and on the northern bank of Pangong Lake, located 168 km from Leh.
The Indian armed forces were outnumbered because there is no way they could effectively dominate the third of the lake under their control. “We cannot frequently go on patrols because our forces don’t have patrol boats on the lake.”
India flexed its muscles in October 2013 with the landing of Super Hercules at Daulat Beg Oldi, where Chinese troops had erected tents (below) in April
Aerial view of five tents erected by intruding Chinese troops inside Indian territory in Daulat Beg Oldi sector of Ladakh.
Between 200 and 300 Chinese intrusions inside the Indian territory occur every year but for the sake of ‘normalisation’ of relations with Beijing, Delhi keeps them under wraps.In November, the UPA government decided to go aggressive, a marked change in India's approach towards China,with New Delhi upping the ante by carrying out regular boat patrols in the water body in Ladakh.When the Indian Army resorted to aggressive patrols - the Chinese protested following their assessment that the Indian Army's newly-acquired American patrol boats have considerably reduced their tactical advantage on the strategic lake, located at 14,500ft in Ladakh. But now the sleek high-speed patrol boats from the US have become an irritant for China.The UPA government decided to set up a new a mountain strike corps, with more than 45,000 soldiers for the China border and passed the budg
China has rejected “McMahon Line” in India’s case but accepted it in settling boundary dispute with Myanmar.
According to Dai Bingguo, “Even British colonialists who drew the illegal McMahon Line respected China’s jurisdiction over Tawang and admitted that Tawang was part of China’s Tibet.”
THE DISPUTE
India sees China as occupying 38,000 sq km of its territory in Aksai Chin, while China claims 90,000 sq km in Arunachal Pradesh.
Presently the disputed territory between China and India is primarily the Arunachal and Tawang in the Eastern Sector and Aksai Chin in the Western Sector. China is in the possession Aksai Chin, while India has occupied Arunachal, which Chinese claim to be Southern Tibet and Tawang.
Arunachal (Eastern-Southern Tibet) and Tawang are rich in resources, but, its biggest flaw is it is easy to attack but hard to defend. Since Southern Tibet and Tawang are closer to India’s plains, troop movements and logistics would be easy for India compared to China.
Although Aksai Chin’s terrain is extremely inhospitable but very important. It is located at the high grounds in Central Asia, close to the capital and central cities of India. In the event of hostilities between India and China, China’s heavy equipment units could rumble down through the Aksai Chin, and easily run over New Delhi,
Aksai Chin is closer to the disputed area between India and Pakistan. In the event of an India-Pakistan war, China can effectively support Pakistan and render India between Scylla and Charybdis. Therefore, we have to see the value of Aksai Chin keeping in mind the overall interest of the country. Its value is much higher than the value of Southern Tibet and Tawang.
By holding Aksai Chin, India has been perpetually enslaved to China.
CHINESE Insurgence
For reasons best known to them, the successive governments have not come clean on the extent of Chinese incursions in Ladakh, consistently playing them down.
One-third part of the Pangong Tso lake lies in India while the remaining two-third lies in Tibet.
Sources say, “Chinese have brought in the artillery and fast patrol boats. They are aggressively patrolling the lake. Over 20 Chinese boats had made a 10 km deep incursion on the Indian side of the lake in April 2013. There are even reports in the Chinese media about the induction of a nuclear submarine.”
These incursions were simultaneously backed by Chinesetroops on the road built alongside the Pangong lake which took place in eastern Ladakh and on the northern bank of Pangong Lake, located 168 km from Leh.
The Indian armed forces were outnumbered because there is no way they could effectively dominate the third of the lake under their control. “We cannot frequently go on patrols because our forces don’t have patrol boats on the lake.”
India flexed its muscles in October 2013 with the landing of Super Hercules at Daulat Beg Oldi, where Chinese troops had erected tents (below) in April
Aerial view of five tents erected by intruding Chinese troops inside Indian territory in Daulat Beg Oldi sector of Ladakh.
Between 200 and 300 Chinese intrusions inside the Indian territory occur every year but for the sake of ‘normalisation’ of relations with Beijing, Delhi keeps them under wraps.In November, the UPA government decided to go aggressive, a marked change in India's approach towards China,with New Delhi upping the ante by carrying out regular boat patrols in the water body in Ladakh.When the Indian Army resorted to aggressive patrols - the Chinese protested following their assessment that the Indian Army's newly-acquired American patrol boats have considerably reduced their tactical advantage on the strategic lake, located at 14,500ft in Ladakh. But now the sleek high-speed patrol boats from the US have become an irritant for China.The UPA government decided to set up a new a mountain strike corps, with more than 45,000 soldiers for the China border and passed the budg
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