Category: Borders

• New India-China Patrolling Agreement: More Questions from Kazan

  Originally published as, ‘Path to normalisation of India-China ties not easy’, Deccan Herald, 26 October 2024. Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Chinese President Xi Jinping held “their first proper bilateral meeting at delegation level in nearly five years” on the sidelines of the BRICS Summit in Kazan, Russia.[1] Coming in the wake of an announcement earlier…

• A Patrolling Agreement and Some Questions

  INDIAN FOREIGN SECRETARY Vikrim Misri announced on Monday that India and China had reached “an agreement … on patrolling arrangements along the Line of Actual Control…leading to disengagement and a resolution of the issues that had arisen”  following Chinese transgressions…

• India-China agreement is welcome — but we don’t know enough

  

  INDIAN FOREIGN SECRETARY Vikram Misri announced on October 21 that India and China had reached “an agreement… on patrolling arrangements along the Line of Actual Control… leading to disengagement and a resolution of the issues that had arisen” following Chinese transgressions “in these areas in 2020”. The question that remains to be clarified…

• The geopolitics in ‘Tibet border’ reference

  

  RAJYA SABHA MEMBER Dorjee Tshering Lepcha from Sikkim hit the headlines last week for his call to the Union government to instruct the Indian Army and other agencies working in border areas to start referring to the ‘China border’ as the ‘Tibet border’…

• Xi Jinping, Not The PLA: A Simpler Explanation for India-China Tensions

  

  The principle of Occam’s razor states that if you have two competing ideas to explain a phenomenon, you should prefer the simpler one. In other words, the explanation that requires the fewest assumptions is usually the correct one…

• Border management more than just domestic politics

  

  DURING HIS VISIT to Arunachal Pradesh earlier this week, Indian Home Minister Amit Shah declared, “Today, we can state with pride, gone are those days when people could encroach into our land. Now, they cannot even take a pin’s tip worth of our land because the ITBP and the Indian Army are now present here.”…

• India needs to rethink its China strategy at LAC

  

  A confidential research paper presented during a mid-January conference of the top police leadership in India has suggested that skirmishes along the Line of Actual Control (LAC) between India and China will ‘get frequent’…

• Flare-up at Tawang marks shortcomings of India’s China diplomacy

  

  THERE HAS BEEN yet another transgression by Chinese troops across the Line of Actual Control (LAC) between India and China. That it culminated in violence, that it took place this time in the Eastern Sector of their boundary dispute, or that it should take place in the middle of winter should surprise no one…

• A Potential Conflict over Taiwan: A View from India

  China’s August 2022 military exercises around Taiwan in the wake of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s visit to the island set off concerns about another potential regional conflagration following on the heels of the Russian invasion of Ukraine. While the exercises have ceased, they were another opportunity for Beijing to underline its willingness to use force…