EDITOR-IN-CHIEF
Jul 31, 2021
4 minutes
(Aroon Purie)
Friends can be changed, not neighbours,” Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee had said in the Lok Sabha nearly two decades ago. He was speaking about Pakistan. The same could apply to China too. China’s invasion and annexation of Tibet in 1950-51 turned the two nations into neighbours for the first time in their post-colonial history. They inherited the unsettled boundaries bequeathed by the colonial British and Imperial China, which regarded Tibet as a vassal state. India lays claim to all of Aksai Chin, which connects the Chinese provinces of Xinjiang and Tibet. China lays claim to all
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