Talks between India and China over the disputed border region in the Himalayas have broken down, with each side blaming the other for the failed negotiations.
Tensions have been high between the two powers along the Line of Actual Control (LAC), which separates Indian-controlled territory from Chinese-controlled territory. In 2020, Chinese and Indian troops fought several skirmishes along the LAC, including one in June 2020 that turned deadly.
The failed talks mean that India and China will continue to have troops forwardly deployed in Ladakh, where the skirmishes took place. China has blamed the failure on what it called “unreasonable demands” from India.
“The Chinese side has made great efforts and fully demonstrated its sincerity to promote the de-escalation of the border situation,” said Long Shaohua, a spokesman for China’s Western Theater Command. “But the Indian side still insists on unreasonable and unrealistic demands, making the negotiations more difficult.”
India rejected the Chinese claim and said it made “constructive suggestions” but that the Chinese were “not agreeable” and “could not provide any forward-looking proposals.”
Before the talks concluded, India’s army chief said China is building up troops on its side of the disputed border and building infrastructure. “So, it means that they are there to stay. We are keeping a close watch on all these developments, but if they are there to stay, we are there to stay, too,” said Gen. M.M. Naravane.
Since the deadly June 2020 skirmish, the US has stepped up military cooperation with India, including a new military pact that shares more satellite data with New Delhi. With this increased intelligence sharing, India can keep a better eye on Chinese troops.
Channeling US Neocon arguments, the Indian media has also intensified attacks on China. Am I to believe that the average Indian wants to get killed or wants India destroyed in order for the US to maintain its hegemony and for the US to “win” the 21st century? I don’t. That would be the most ludicrous notion ever!
Like the US, India is a bourgeois democracy, …only big business counts.
New Delhi is not “India” and that waste of a Capital has brutalized Kashmir for the last 75 years. Its military has done a worse job at crushing Kashmir than the US led wars have done to nations like Vietnam or Afghanistan .
Kashmir is a slice of paradise the size of the United Kingdom (93 thousand sq miles to Kashmir’s 83 thousand sq miles) with only 5 million. Yet when India and Pakistan became independent in 1947 Kashmir became a UN issue similar to Palestine with decades of brutality from the Indian military
it is a rich region with a very diverse ecology and ancient history going back 5000 years. The only region to have a written history of its kings called the Rajatarangini (river of kings). Sri Lanka is the other region to have a written history. Which means Kashmir has is own identity in history, language (Kashmiri) and should be given the independence it seeks
As an independent power it would share borders with 3 nuclear powers and 2 Security Council members with Russia being a close neighbor. that would make Kashmir in a powerful position and not so dissimilar to Switzerland So far it is China’s BRI that is bringing an economic chance , a break and not India
India and China are not existential threats to one another because their common border (wherever exactly) is straddled by the Himalaya. A large army could not easily attack in either direction.