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Aksai Chin: The high-altitude legacy of sovereignty and strategy

The name "Aksai Chin" translates to the "White Desert of the True Gorge," a title that conveys its historical identity as a rugged, high-altitude extension of the Indian subcontinent. Situated at the ...
War on the Rocks

How British Imperial History Does (and Doesn’t) Shape the Sino-Indian Border Dispute

Kyle J. Gardner, The Frontier Complex: Geopolitics and the Making of the India-China Border, 1846-1962 (Cambridge University Press, 2021) When the first Englishman visited Leh, the capital of Ladakh ...
Eurasia Review

Could India Revisit The 1959 Chinese Proposal To Settle The Border Dispute? – Analysis

Gen. M.M.Naravane, who served as India’s army chief from 2019 to 2022, has suggested that India and China consider the 1959 Chinese proposal to barter the disputed territories of Aksai Chin and ...
theepochtimes

China’s Grab for Mineral, Water Resources Along the Indian Frontier: Ladakh and Aksai Chin

NEW DELHI—There’s much at stake in the border conflict between India and China. The disputed border regions, which start from high-altitude trans-Himalayan tracts and stretch all along the massive ...