While most of what Tim states may be facts on the ground, perhaps his deep rooted bias on “Hindu” slips through . In this piece, he has qualified the Indian govt as “Hindu” Nationalist BJP Govt. but has given no such encomiums to China or their opportunist cronie, Pakistan, who till yesterday used to swear by USA. In his view, again perhaps, both these governments/countries are saintly ones and do not deserve calling any names. Tim, do get real and do not take on the soft targets but expose China & Pakistan for what they are, insidious and a blot on the face of this earth.
I think you’re being oversensitive, Ravi. This piece is very clearly critical of China.
Dougie Undersub
3 years ago
One wonders whether the Chinese shopped Dominic Cummings to The Mirror, to take the British political establishment’s eye off the geopolitical ball, but of course they didn’t need to. Our second-rate politicians and gotcha-obsessed media don’t need any encouragement to ignore the important things in favour of partisan hysteria.
Don’t worry, Mr Trump has his eye on China, as off course, do the USN and their U-boats!
Rupert Wolfe Murray
3 years ago
I thought the Aksai Chin region is in Tibet. I just checked Google Maps and it seems to be on the border with Xinjiang, but historically it was always Tibetan.
This sort of border skirmish has been going on between China and India for years, but it rarely gets reported.
What your article doesn’t explain is that China just took the Aksai Chin in the early 60s and, as it was uninhabited, India (apparently) didn’t notice. When Delhi objected the Chinese marched into Northern India but retreated before the vast Indian Army was able to respond; but they’d made their point.
Robert Flack
3 years ago
China is expanding its empire and needs to be stopped. This is exactly how wars start.
AJ Spetzari
3 years ago
Interesting article – always good to read different goings on.
Although not sure if it will come to anything as it’s in neither’s interest to fall out over something that is strategically irrelevant for both.
China needs ports – it’s hemmed in by potential threats & rivals on its main seaboard, which is why it’s pursuing a closer partnership with Pakistan.
Aksai Chin is over 1000 miles inland and access to and from it only goes deeper into Indian controlled territory. Same same for India. The region’s only strategic worth is as a bridge between the two nations, and if they’re at loggerheads that’s pointless.
I would imagine that both sides are playing out relatively minor military shenanigans to purely not lose any face domestically.
d.tjarlz
3 years ago
Typo Alert: “If China feels it can cement the new facts on the ground and maintain that record it will be tempted to reject compromise ” and that will leave India **will a very hard choice.”
While most of what Tim states may be facts on the ground, perhaps his deep rooted bias on “Hindu” slips through . In this piece, he has qualified the Indian govt as “Hindu” Nationalist BJP Govt. but has given no such encomiums to China or their opportunist cronie, Pakistan, who till yesterday used to swear by USA. In his view, again perhaps, both these governments/countries are saintly ones and do not deserve calling any names.
Tim, do get real and do not take on the soft targets but expose China & Pakistan for what they are, insidious and a blot on the face of this earth.
I think you’re being oversensitive, Ravi. This piece is very clearly critical of China.
One wonders whether the Chinese shopped Dominic Cummings to The Mirror, to take the British political establishment’s eye off the geopolitical ball, but of course they didn’t need to. Our second-rate politicians and gotcha-obsessed media don’t need any encouragement to ignore the important things in favour of partisan hysteria.
Don’t worry, Mr Trump has his eye on China, as off course, do the USN and their U-boats!
I thought the Aksai Chin region is in Tibet. I just checked Google Maps and it seems to be on the border with Xinjiang, but historically it was always Tibetan.
This sort of border skirmish has been going on between China and India for years, but it rarely gets reported.
What your article doesn’t explain is that China just took the Aksai Chin in the early 60s and, as it was uninhabited, India (apparently) didn’t notice. When Delhi objected the Chinese marched into Northern India but retreated before the vast Indian Army was able to respond; but they’d made their point.
China is expanding its empire and needs to be stopped. This is exactly how wars start.
Interesting article – always good to read different goings on.
Although not sure if it will come to anything as it’s in neither’s interest to fall out over something that is strategically irrelevant for both.
China needs ports – it’s hemmed in by potential threats & rivals on its main seaboard, which is why it’s pursuing a closer partnership with Pakistan.
Aksai Chin is over 1000 miles inland and access to and from it only goes deeper into Indian controlled territory. Same same for India. The region’s only strategic worth is as a bridge between the two nations, and if they’re at loggerheads that’s pointless.
I would imagine that both sides are playing out relatively minor military shenanigans to purely not lose any face domestically.
Typo Alert: “If China feels it can cement the new facts on the ground and maintain that record it will be tempted to reject compromise ” and that will leave India **will a very hard choice.”