{"id":29120,"date":"2022-12-14T14:07:05","date_gmt":"2022-12-14T14:07:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/?p=29120"},"modified":"2022-12-14T14:07:09","modified_gmt":"2022-12-14T14:07:09","slug":"india-china-dispute-shadow-of-60-year-old-war-at-border-flashpoint","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/?p=29120","title":{"rendered":"India-China dispute: Shadow of 60-year-old war at border flashpoint"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">BBC NEws:   <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>The fighting began early on a bright autumn morning 60 years ago.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">On 23 October 1962 Chinese solders entered and engaged in intense artillery fire in what was then a far-flung Himalayan region in north-eastern India called North-East Frontier Agency (NEFA), bordering China and Bhutan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Today it is Arunachal Pradesh, an Indian state with more than a million people that China continues to claim as its territory, and where the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/world-asia-63953400\">latest flare-up between the two sides<\/a> in more than a year took place.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;Explosions lit up the sky and echoed between the mountains,&#8221; Indian army personnel told Bertil Lintner, a Swedish journalist and author of the China&#8217;s India War: Collision Course on the Roof of the World.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Chinese soldiers overran an Indian position, killing 17 Indian soldiers and capturing 13 others. Facing little resistance from the surprised and ill-equipped Indian forces they forged ahead. Next day, they seized Tawang, a Buddhist monastery town nestling in a nearby valley.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/world-asia-53062484\">The border row explained in 400 words<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Chinese marched south. By mid-November, they had reached the town of Bomdila, a monastery-town near a hill and barely 250km (155 miles) away from Assam, home to India&#8217;s thriving tea gardens, oil fields and jute plantations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And then, on 21 November, the Chinese declared a ceasefire and swiftly withdrew to 20km north of the hazy, de-facto border between the two countries, known as the Line of Actual Control and delineated by maps made in British ruled-India.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ichef.bbci.co.uk\/news\/976\/cpsprodpb\/72D7\/production\/_127999392_gettyimages-3269596-594x594.jpg\" alt=\"November 1962: Indian officers occupying one of the forts in the Ladakh region of northern India during border clashes between India and China.\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;The war was over. Within a couple of weeks PLA soldiers were back on the Chinese-controlled part of the mountains,&#8221; noted Mr Linter. Indians counted the loss of 1,383 soldiers and nearly 1,700 &#8220;missing in action&#8221;. Chinese records put Indian casualties at nearly 4,900 dead and another 3,968 captured alive.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Manoj Joshi, an Indian defence analyst and author of a new book Understanding The India China Border, says it is unclear why the Chinese withdrew.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;Was it because their supply lines were extended? Were they afraid of US intervention? Or was it the fact that they were not too serious about their eastern (border) claims?&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/world-asia-52852509\">Why tensions are rising between the neighbours<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The contentious Sino-Indian border is divided into three areas: the western sector around Ladakh; the middle sector made up of the boundary between India&#8217;s Himachal Pradesh and Uttarakhand states with Tibet; and the eastern sector consisting of the boundary at Arunachal Pradesh.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Experts say it is a really a &#8220;notional line&#8221; &#8211; Indians say it is 3,488km long; the Chinese say it is a little over 2,000km.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">India claims the plateau of Aksai Chin, an area of the size of Switzerland that China controls in the western part of the border. China claims Arunachal Pradesh.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ichef.bbci.co.uk\/news\/976\/cpsprodpb\/9E33\/production\/_127999404_gettyimages-1236000827-594x594.jpg\" alt=\"Indian Army soldiers are pictured on a Bofors gun positioned at Penga Teng Tso ahead of Tawang, near the Line of Actual Control (LAC), neighbouring China, in India's Arunachal Pradesh state on October 20, 2021.\"\/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BBC NEws: The fighting began early on a bright autumn morning 60 years ago. On 23 October 1962 Chinese solders entered and engaged in intense artillery fire in what was then a far-flung Himalayan region in north-eastern India called North-East Frontier Agency (NEFA), bordering China and Bhutan. Today it is Arunachal Pradesh, an Indian state with more than a million people that China continues to claim as its territory, and where the latest flare-up between the two sides in more than a year took place. &#8220;Explosions lit up the sky and echoed between the mountains,&#8221; Indian army personnel told Bertil&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":29121,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29120","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-in-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29120","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=29120"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29120\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29122,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29120\/revisions\/29122"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/29121"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29120"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29120"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29120"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}