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As China's "neighbor", India has never understood a sentence: distant relatives are better than close neighbors. On the contrary, they are like awkward children in Sino Indian relations, trying to make China give in to coax him.
Finally, Indian Prime Minister Modi, who is about to take part in the new general election in June this year, wants to set up "magnanimous" personnel for himself, and his attitude towards the Sino Indian border has eased a lot, saying that this matter can be communicated.
However, Modi has just played the mitigation card here, and Indian Foreign Minister Su Jiesheng directly threw "Wang Jian" on the other side, saying: To ease Sino Indian relations, China must make a sincere concession, withdraw the Chinese army stationed at the border, and let the Indian army patrol the 972 square kilometer Tiannan Valley in western China.
Su Jie is not straight and strong. Will China agree to this request? What on earth is there on the Sino Indian border that attracts India to make trouble there again and again?
Dispute over the Tiannan River Valley
The location of the Tiannan River Valley is very delicate, just at the junction of Indian controlled Kashmir and Xinjiang of China, which has high strategic value.
For India, which is "bumpy", the Tiannan River Valley is a flat land, where the Indian army can transport weapons and equipment for strategic deployment.
Because of this, India sees the Tiannan River Valley more and more favorably, and the only thing that doesn't appeal to India is that the Tiannan River Valley is China's territory.
Over the years, India has done everything possible to make the Tiannan River Valley its own use. In the past decades, the Indian army has repeatedly tried to occupy this area by patrolling the Tiannan Valley.
Because of these things, the Chinese army often conflicts with the Indian army. Finally, in order to reach the goal in one step and reduce the friction in the future, our army will strengthen control in the Tiannan Valley area in 2020, especially in Dapingkou, and will not give the Indian army any loopholes to exploit.
In this way, it is difficult for the Indian army to climb into the Tiannan Valley. However, in the past ten years, the Indian army has never given up and repeatedly asked our country to open the Daping Pass and let the Indian army patrol, but our country refused one by one.
Later, China and India had many negotiations on the border issue. Although several problems were solved, there is still no good solution to the problems in the Tiannan Valley and hot springs.
In India's view, that place is very important to them, so China should follow their wishes. Only when China makes concessions can China India relations ease. But we don't want to talk about friends who just want to take things and don't want to give anything.
After China refused India's request for patrols, India persevered and hoped that China could conduct patrols with Indian troops Joint patrol perhaps Peak shifting patrol 。 China is still good tempered and politely rebuffed India's unreasonable request.
Is India so devoted to the Tiannan Valley just to transport weapons? What's the secret of the Tiannan Valley that India has been thinking about for decades?
The Secret of Tiannan Valley
The Tiannan River Valley is close to the China Pakistan Economic Corridor, and the Keleqing River Valley was temporarily entrusted to China for management through the 1963 China Pakistan Border Agreement. In 2023, China has built a road in the Keleqin River Valley, which makes India very dissatisfied.
They felt that the road was a threat to the Indian army that had occupied Siachen Glacier. Moreover, they thought for a long time that in case of conflict between India and Pakistan in the future, China would probably provide assistance to Pakistan through this road.
The completion of the Keleqin River Valley Highway is very conducive to stabilizing the western line of the China India border and promoting China Pakistan economic cooperation and development.
The reason why India has always been obsessed with the Tiannan Valley is that as long as the valley has its own people, no matter how good the cooperation between China and Pakistan is, they can find opportunities to destroy the China Pakistan Economic Corridor and affect the cooperation between China and Pakistan.
However, in the face of the unreasonable request made by Indian Foreign Minister Su Jiesheng, China will certainly not accept it. Although China hopes to have good diplomatic relations with India, the diplomatic relations we want are based on the premise of respecting China's territorial sovereignty and integrity.
At the same time, India has seen the interest struggle between China and the United States. It seems that it has grasped China's weakness. It feels that China must hope to have good relations with its neighbors at this time. As long as India exerts pressure on China, it can gain more territory on the Sino Indian border.
In addition, from the perspective of international relations, India's tough attitude towards China is actually attracting the attention of the United States, which is equivalent to "casting a name" on the United States: if we bully the same person, then you can take me to play.
However, facts have proved that India's approach has not been trusted strategically by the United States and its allies, and India can be said to be becoming more and more lonely.
Previously, China and India broke out on the border Donglang Conflict and Confrontation However, under China's strong attitude of "guarding the territory", India withdrew to its own side.
Later, during Modi's second term of office, the Galawan conflict broke out again on the border between China and India. At that time, Modi quickly admitted the mistakes made by India. He said that China had not invaded India's border and that India's outposts had not been occupied.
From his statement, we can see that China has always been tolerant of India's vexatious behavior and is also full of goodwill.
But India was still a bit naive. He imagined that if the United States and its allies succeeded in curbing China's rapid development in the future, they would help India rise.
It can be seen that India has not paid enough tuition fees in the United States. The relationship between people is maintained by interests, let alone between countries?
If India does make trouble for China at the border between China and India and catch the boat of the United States, its future is easy to guess.
After all, the attitude of the United States towards India is very obvious. As a little brother who can use or not use it, he can only rely on his big brother to survive and serve his big brother.
The new ambassador to India sees the future
Now that China's comprehensive national strength and military strength are becoming stronger, China is fully capable of defending its own interests and border security independently.
It is hoped that India can open its eyes, look at the world more, understand the facts and the status quo, and do not continue to make trouble on the border issue between China and India. Otherwise, we don't mind letting them suffer again from the lesson of 1962.
However, Xu Feihong, the new ambassador to India, still treats the future of China India relations with the attitude of friendly communication and peaceful coexistence.
Regarding the border issue between China and India, Xu Feihong said: China and India are friends. We hope that the two countries can follow the important consensus, enhance understanding, resume exchanges and communication, and create favorable conditions for the stable and healthy development of China India relations.
In addition, he pointed out that the border issue between China and India is not the whole of China India relations. As early as 2014, we had a conference attitude towards China India relations, The Chinese side said that it could not focus on the differences between China and India and ignore exchanges and cooperation.
It is hoped that in the future, China and India can reach a mutually acceptable solution through diplomacy and communication, so that the border between China and India will become more peaceful and peaceful.
What do you think of China India relations?
reference material:
Observer.com 2024-05-14 14:12 Lin Minwang: India's Great Power Diplomacy, Burying a Huge Strategic Cause
Global Times 2024-05-10 12:03 Xu Feihong, China's new ambassador to India: China and India are partners rather than rivals
Surge News 2024-05-11 08:54 "New Ambassador to India Xu Feihong: The situation on the China India border is generally stable and controllable, and the two armies have disengaged at four points in the western section of the border"
