First, India compromises it’s sovereign stance on Kashmir to Pakistan, and now the China. I am beginning to like these Indians.
*The guiding principles would then be the basis for their border talks in coming years. China and India have been holding talks at different levels for the past 17 years to settle their border dispute, which resulted in a bitter conflict in 1962. While India claims areas of Aksai Chin in the western sector, China terms the north-eastern Indian state of Arunachal Pradesh as a disputed territory. While no major breakthrough has been achieved in solving the dispute, analysts say both countries have come a long way in improving their ties over the past four decades. **“India has now moved from a legalistic position and is now trying to find a political solution to the border issue. This is a fundamental change,” says Swaran Singh, a China expert at Delhi’s Jawaharlal Nehru University. **
India said China was occupying its territories in Kashmir illegally and wanted Beijing to vacate from Aksai Chin in accordance with international agreements. China said it wanted a negotiated settlement on disputed territories. Now both sides seem to have moved from their historical claims. As part of the guiding principles they are expected to maintain the existing status quo on the borders - such as not disturbing the population on both sides. If the negotiations are successful, the feeling is that the Line of Actual Control (LAC) could possibly be converted to the international border. *
Yep, your links say pretty much the same thing John. India is about to concede the Aksai Chin to China, which it lost in the 1962 war.
The Hindustan Times, a national newspaper in India, said in a March 16 commentary entitled “Let’s Move On” on the border disputes that “neither India nor China can forcibly take what they claim from each other and such an effort will be fraught with the greatest of dangers since they are both nuclear powers. The best option, then, is to sit together and work out the best possible compromise formula and move on.”
Hindustan should sell some of it's territory to it's neighbours (like Kashmir is being sold slowly) in order to feed it's poverty-stricken 1.050 billion population. It'll save Hindustan $80 million a day which at the moment is being wasted on the Hindustani Occupation of Kashmir. It's the only way.
(The Russians sold Alaska to the U.S. and the Chinese sold Hong Kong to Inglistan and they became the Superpowers of the 20th centuries.)
On other issues, Wen and Singh are expected to discuss the more than 50-year-old border dispute over their 650-mile frontier, parts of which are not demarcated. A solution is expected to be reached during Wen’s four-day visit
China actually seized Aksai Chin from India in 1962, not AP which it only claims. India is prepared to accept the Chinese seizure of 40,000 square km of land, while China is doing no such thing. See the difference Mr rvikz?
That is the point Mr rvikz. China only claims AP, and does not occupy it like does Aksai Chin. India is wise to concede this territory, which it has no hope of winning back in anyway, and change it's maps and constitution accordingly.
Conclusion - China keeps all the territories it won in the 1962 war, and India accepts it. :)
**Meanwhile, the sovereign Government of India, which till now has been claiming sovereign rights over all of Jammu and Kashmir as it existed at the time of the princely state's accession, has been reduced to cravenly conceding the legitimacy of a patently illegitimate and bogus institution called the 'Government of Azad Kashmir.' **
THE categorical statement of Foreign Minister Natwar Singh that there can be no question of redrawing the map of India–and in New Delhi’s view the status of Held Kashmir is not in dispute, that is it is part and parcel of the country–leaves little room for hope that the so-called composite dialogue would make any headway on what Pakistan regards as the core issue. And that is especially so against the backdrop of Islamabad’s readiness to go to any length to show flexibility and meet almost every Indian demand about introducing confidence building measures. Obviously, India does not feel under any compulsion to change its rigid stand.
Natwar says one thing in public, but is then conceding the Aksai Chin to China, which your maps and constitution defines as part of India. Is that not redrawing borders Mr rvikz? You have such faith in the public statements of politicians. :)
