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Title: Battle in the Himalayas
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URL Source: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive ... ina-india-border-conflict.html
Published: Jul 18, 2020
Author: Jin Wu and Steven Lee Myers
Post Date: 2020-07-21 14:30:09 by BTP Holdings
Keywords: None
Views: 475
Comments: 5

Battle in the Himalayas

China and India are locked in a tense, deadly struggle for advantage on their disputed mountain border.

By Jin Wu and Steven Lee Myers July 18, 2020

China and India have stumbled once again into a bloody clash over some of the most inhospitable terrain on Earth.

A deadly brawl last month killed 20 Indian border troops and an unknown number of Chinese soldiers, punctuating a decades-old border dispute that has become one of the world’s most intractable geopolitical conflicts. It has inflamed tensions at a time when the world is consumed by the coronavirus pandemic, and it has scuttled recent efforts by the two Asian powers to set aside their historical differences.

In the weeks since, the two sides have tried to walk back from the brink, with military commanders and senior diplomats negotiating quietly to disengage. By late last week, satellite photographs indicated that Chinese troops had pulled out of one disputed area where a brawl sparked the latest tensions.

Even so, the broader dispute between the world’s two most populous nations, both armed with nuclear weapons, remains unresolved and dangerous. It involves a region called Ladakh, a sparsely populated area, high in the Himalayas, with close historical and cultural ties to Tibet. It was divided in the years after India gained independence from Britain in 1947 and the Communist Party established the People’s Republic of China two years later.

The all-weather DSDBO Road connects India’s remote military camp to the center of Ladakh.

During its invasion of Tibet in 1950, Mao Zedong’s China seized the northern part of Ladakh, called Aksai Chin, and has held it ever since — in no small part because a crucial road connecting Tibet with another restive province, Xinjiang, runs through it. In 1962, the two countries went to war over the same terrain, but despite an overwhelming Chinese victory, the de facto frontier — known as the Line of Actual Control — remained roughly the same.

The clashes this spring and summer stemmed from India’s recent efforts to build up the road network on its side of the frontier, catching up — belatedly, critics say — to China’s buildup on its side. Last year, India completed an all-weather road connecting Leh, the capital of Ladakh, to its northernmost outpost at Daulat Beg Oldi. In the last two decades, India has constructed nearly 5,000 kilometers of roads, allowing it to move military forces more easily along the mountainous border region.

China appeared alarmed by that and by India’s decision last year to impose direct national rule over the Ladakh region.

"China is very sensitive to Indian activity in the western sector,” said M. Taylor Fravel, director of the Security Studies Program at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, “and it goes back to the reasons why it decided to fight in 1962 — to defend that road that connected Xinjiang to Tibet.”

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#1. To: BTP Holdings (#0)

Eric Margolis has been concerned for years that this War on the Top of the World is extremely dangerous, primarily because China, India and Pakistan all have the bomb and could set off a worldwide catastrophe.

Don't remember, though, why the geography is all that important. One of those "two bald men fighting over a comb" type wars.

Ada  posted on  2020-07-21   19:43:53 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#2. To: Ada (#1) (Edited)

China, India and Pakistan all have the bomb

The main reason we were in Afghanistan is so we could take out the Pakistani nukes if they were to become extremely unreasonable.

I do not expect you to believe this, but you need to be mindful that Pakistan is not a signatory to the U.N. Non-Proliferation Treaty.

It is said this is how the Saudis have obtained that technology. The Saudis had threatened to nuke Syria a few years back while the Russians were helping them to defeat ISIS.

But you know that if the Saudis nuked Syria, the Russians would take out Mecca, Medina and Riyadh. :-/

"When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall, one by one." Edmund Burke

BTP Holdings  posted on  2020-07-21   20:24:13 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#3. To: BTP Holdings, Ada (#2)

India will soon surpass China in population with over 1.5 billion humans.

Asia will soon have """five billion""" people.

This trend cannot and will not continue. The population bomb is ticking away.

Cynicom  posted on  2020-07-21   20:47:24 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#4. To: Cynicom (#3)

India will soon surpass China in population with over 1.5 billion humans.

Asia will soon have """five billion""" people.

This trend cannot and will not continue. The population bomb is ticking away.

In China people search the many garbage dumps looking for food for their pets.

Is India in the same predicament? They do not eat beef there and cows lay around everywhere. ;)

"When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall, one by one." Edmund Burke

BTP Holdings  posted on  2020-07-21   20:57:36 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#5. To: BTP Holdings (#4)

Is India in the same predicament? They do not eat beef there and cows lay around everywhere. ;)

India cooks the books to show that they "export food". In fact those cows and hungry humans do not have the grain they need.

Cynicom  posted on  2020-07-21   21:38:30 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


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