Early May 2020 conflict at a pass in the Sikkim section of the Sino-Indian borde
Hundreds of Indian and Chinese soldiers met each other with fists and threw stones across the border in Sikkim before conflict, new coronavirus outbreak ended.
Indian media quoted an indian army officer as saying that seven chinese and four indian soldiers were injured in a conflict, near the sikinakura area in early may.
A direct communication between the army commanders of the two countries in the border area subsequently resolved the dispute.
War is a continuation of diplomacy, as are punches and stones.
Who the hell violated whose territory? The controversy once again highlights the long-standing border issue between China and India, as well as potential strategic contradictions in the future.
China army. India in the 1962 Sino-Indian War saw the border war as a stab in the back of India by China, saw it as a self-defense counterattack against Indian aggression.
Border sovereignty disputes
China and India have a common border of nearly 2000 kilometers, with a total area of more than 120000 square kilometers of territorial disputes, involving the western, middle and eastern three parts. Both sides agreed in principle to peace dispute resolution.
As a result of the lack of clear demarcation lines agreed by both sides, the border patrol forces of the two countries often have disputes, with body conflict, hitting the chest, pushing and throwing stones at each other.
The tense stand-off took place near the al-Naqurah area of Sikkim, the Himalayas, over 5,000 metres above sea level.
In 1962, China and India had a brief border war. Despite China's army victory, it quickly retreated from almost all the disputed areas. Both sides have not signed a border agreement to lay the groundwork for later conflict.
Unlike india and pakistan, where heavy artillery fire and even fighter-air combat have been machine gun for decades, china and india have army engaged in armed confrontations on the line of actual control on both sides of the border many times over the next half-century, armed with live ammunition, but no longer engaged.
In 2017, soldiers on both sides of the border threw stones, insulted and punched each other in the western section of the Bangongo Lake. Of concern.
Under the epidemic
Experts on china and india noted that in recent years, the two countries in the border areas and related to the larger areas of infrastructure construction, become a focus of competition between the two countries, resulting in the border confrontation between the events continue to staged.
Construction of these transport facilities in both countries could also be a potential irritant in the relationship of the two nuclear Powers.
[EB3C51FC-0751-5A81-A0B1-C7A365D84BCC]
As the new coronavirus epidemic continues to spread, both sides are more alert to each other's military movements at the border.
Indian media said india's railway because of the new crown of the epidemic, the indian military also arranged a special military train stranded in training institutions to send officers and soldiers back to the northern and eastern border areas to strengthen preparedness.
China and India have been strategic competitors in South and East Asia since the 1962 Sino-Indian War. China has developed close business and military relationship, with India's neighbors and rival Pakistan and is working to expand its influence in Nepal and Bangladesh.
As one of the world's largest importers of cotton, China is also the largest buyer of Indian cotton. In february, when china badly needed to produce masks amid the new crown epidemic, china complained of india's sudden announcement to stop its cotton exports to china and sharply raise tariffs on chinese imports.
Strategic restraint
Since the 1980s, China and India have eased their diplomatic relationship, with their neighbors and with the West as China improved overall relationship. China-India cooperation and exchanges are increasing. But the shadow of the 1962 border war did not disappear in the relationship between the two countries.
[636C3243-E284-80CF-3612-81C7C20F08C4]
India and the United States have formed an extremely close relationship. of cooperation in nuclear energy, joint military exercises, the sale of high-tech products, arms sales and homeland security
But Chinese scholars have also noted that India has not abandoned its diplomatic cornerstone based on the principle of non-alignment, and that border friction with China has its diplomatic function to enhance the relationship of India and the United States.
And under the epidemic, China and India are both emerging economic powers, the common interests of the two countries to revive the economic need to be more than the lack of land on the border.
As a result, the border conflict, is only reported by the Indian media, the Chinese media is more silent, the two countries have not high-profile accusations against each other. Limiting the border dispute between the two nuclear powers to the level conflict fist and stone weapons may be a diplomatic continuation consistent with the strategy of both sides.
