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087643
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2009.
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"China values highly the trend of bilateral development in Chinese-Indian relations ... they are now in the best period of their development."1
"In 2007, India recorded 140 incursions on its disputed border regions.... This is their style ... it is their means of pressuring India."2
These two quotes were separated in time by just two weeks. The first was from an announcement by the PRC foreign minister on June 5, 2008. The second was from a speech by India's defense minister, made a bit later.
The synchronicity of these two seemingly opposite statements from Beijing and Delhi, while officials in both capitals justifiably give positive marks to the current stage of bilateral relations on the one hand and continue to resort to extremely harsh rhetoric on the other, is quite common today. The paradox here is only superficial, however, for in it lies perhaps the quintessence of the present stage of Chinese-Indian relations, in which indubitable progress is accompanied by difficulties and complicated unresolved issues.
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The border disputes of India with China and Pakistan are a parting gift of the British to the subcontinent. It is about inaccessible land that the British had acquired on India’s Northern, Western and Eastern borders to protect British India from the perceived threat of a Russian invasion, as these lands could act as buffer areas. Much of it was settled on paper with no land demarcation done on ground, so much so when a road was built by the Chinese in Aksai Chin area, Government of India came to know of it only when the Chinese announced the inauguration of the road. Likewise unmarked borders with Kashmir have resulted in decades of unrest in the region.
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