The map of where I live: The wrong idea of India

July 24, 2020 15:28

"What prevents India from formally showing areas under adverse possession by China as ours in various bilateral and international fora? What prevents India from showing all of Aksai Chin under China's control as India? Similarly with PoK. It can be argued successfully that in the last 25 years, China has surreptitiously grabbed more Indian territory than Pakistan, Kargil being their most egregious military misadventure. Whereas each confrontation with China all along our contested boundary has led to even less clarity on what our Line of Actual Control is."

V Sudarshan argues that in the last 25 years, China has surreptitiously grabbed more Indian territory than Pakistan. Read the column here

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