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...effort at marking the frontier, and the border with Tibet has generally been classified as "undefined." Red China was most interested in Ladakh's northeastern corner, where lies the Aksai Chin plateau, empty of nearly everything but rocks, sky and silence. For centuries, a caravan route wound through the Aksai Chin (one reason the Chinese say the plateau is theirs is that Aksai Chin means "China's Desert of White Stone"), leading from Tibet around the hump of the lofty Kunlun range to the Chinese province of Sinkiang. In 1956 and 1957 the Chinese built a paved road...
Even the Chinese conquest of Tibet in 1951 had rung no alarm bells in New Delhi-and therein lie the real beginnings of the present...
Initialed Map. Under the British raj, London played what Lord Curzon called "the great game." Its object was to protect India's northern borders from Russia by fostering semi-independent buffer states like Nepal, Bhutan and Sikkim. In those palmy colonial days, Tibet was militarily insignificant, and China, which claims overlordship of Tibet, was usually too weak to exercise...
...northeastern corner of Kashmir, the Chinese goal is fairly clear. The area in dispute, Ladakh, forms a salient between Tibet and Sinkiang. Although this area has been officially under Indian administration since the days of British rule, very little attention was paid to it, and there was no interference with Chinese traffic on the trade route between Tibet and Sinkiang. After China took control of the Tibetan government, a hard-surfaced road was built through Ladakh, and Chinese troops occupied the region. This alarmed the Indians, who moved up troops of their own and began harassing the Chinese. Today...
...more dangerous to the Indians is the Chinese attack on the North-East Frontier Agency, located farther to the east. No boundary in this area is clearly delineated, but the southern border of Tibet, as fixed by the McMahon line, runs more or less along the peaks of the Himalayas. The hill country south of the Himalayan range comprises (from west to east) Nepal, Sikkim, and Bhutan, and the NEFA. There has been considerable competition between China and India to dominate the first three of these areas--Nepal, Sikkim, and Bhutan. Though Indian influence was originally very strong...