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**zoneouddy** · 10-26-2009, 04:45 AM

China claims a whole state of India as its own territory because it thinks it is part of "South Tibet"-- nevermind that Tibet itself was never really considered a part of Han China. Similarly, China has already usurped about 30,000 sq km of Aksai Chin, a part of the original Kashmir region; China has built an all-weather highway through there that connects Tibet with its another tense minority region, Xinjiang, where the Turkic-speaking local Uighurs are fighting for some sort of local governance-- also fighting the onslaught of Chinese immigration and flooding out of the local minority (as does sparsely populated Tibet).

China also plans on damming the Brahmaputra in Tibet, which could have tremendous repurcussions in India and Bangladesh which depend on its waters.

All this to say that, since 1950s and especially since the brief war in winter of 1962, China has never stopped claiming entire regions of India as its own. It did the same for Sikkim, another Buddhist-majority state in India which has close cultural ties to Tibetan Buddhists-- at least now China accepts Sikkim to be a part of India because it has allowed a border trade route through there that connects Sikkim to Lhasa, Tibet.

Recently, it raised a big stink when the Asian Development Bank (similar to the World Bank/IMF) agreed to fund about $2 billion in development aid for India's northeastern states to include Arunachal Pradesh.

Pakistan bought off China by giving away a chunk of northern Kashmir (Northern Territories) that it controls, way back in 1960s. And China has territorial claims over the oil-rich and strategic Spratly Islands that are also claimed by The Phillipines and Indonesia. Not to mention the cold war over the status of Taiwan. Or how about the border struggle between China and Vietnam? And China continues to fund and protect the North Korean regime.

Basically, they know what they want and aren't afraid to bully anyone to get it, they might even go to war to grab territory.

So what does someone like Google Maps do? Check it out:

Google Placates India, China With Different Map Versions by PC World: Yahoo! Tech

That is not some small land exchange we're talking about...

10-26-2009, 04:45 AM	#2
zoneouddy Join Date Nov 2005 Posts 443 Senior Member	China claims a whole state of India as its own territory because it thinks it is part of "South Tibet"-- nevermind that Tibet itself was never really considered a part of Han China. Similarly, China has already usurped about 30,000 sq km of Aksai Chin, a part of the original Kashmir region; China has built an all-weather highway through there that connects Tibet with its another tense minority region, Xinjiang, where the Turkic-speaking local Uighurs are fighting for some sort of local governance-- also fighting the onslaught of Chinese immigration and flooding out of the local minority (as does sparsely populated Tibet). China also plans on damming the Brahmaputra in Tibet, which could have tremendous repurcussions in India and Bangladesh which depend on its waters. All this to say that, since 1950s and especially since the brief war in winter of 1962, China has never stopped claiming entire regions of India as its own. It did the same for Sikkim, another Buddhist-majority state in India which has close cultural ties to Tibetan Buddhists-- at least now China accepts Sikkim to be a part of India because it has allowed a border trade route through there that connects Sikkim to Lhasa, Tibet. Recently, it raised a big stink when the Asian Development Bank (similar to the World Bank/IMF) agreed to fund about $2 billion in development aid for India's northeastern states to include Arunachal Pradesh. Pakistan bought off China by giving away a chunk of northern Kashmir (Northern Territories) that it controls, way back in 1960s. And China has territorial claims over the oil-rich and strategic Spratly Islands that are also claimed by The Phillipines and Indonesia. Not to mention the cold war over the status of Taiwan. Or how about the border struggle between China and Vietnam? And China continues to fund and protect the North Korean regime. Basically, they know what they want and aren't afraid to bully anyone to get it, they might even go to war to grab territory. So what does someone like Google Maps do? Check it out: Google Placates India, China With Different Map Versions by PC World: Yahoo! Tech That is not some small land exchange we're talking about...
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