أطراس
Volume 5, Numéro 2, Pages 16-24
2024-07-15
China- India Border Crisis: Causes And Implications 1962-2023
Authors : Agubamah Edgar .
Abstract
Abstract More than seventy years, the Sino-Indo border crisis has become an endless imbroglio with no settlement in the near feature. Exchanges between the two Asian giants have soured over the last decade, particularly following a 2020 boundary skirmishes between Indian and Chinese soldiers in the Galwan area. The issue of a disputed border emerged in the early 1950s when the People’s Republic of China affected her capture of Tibet, an act which created for China and India one of the lengthiest undefined boundaries in the globe. The China-India border stretches for approximately 3,488 kilometers (2,167 miles) across the Himalayan mountains range, separating the two countries. The main areas of contention are the western sector (Aksai Chin region administered by China but claimed by India) and the eastern sector (Arunachal Pradesh region administered by India but claimed by China). This dispute has led to several military standoffs and border skirmishes over the years. The intricate and protractedness of this border conflict made this work to try to find out the causes and implications of this crisis to the Asian region and the world generally. To do this effectively we employ the secondary sources where data were collected from textbooks, diplomatic records, academic literature, newspapers, journals, magazines, and internet materials. The data collected were analyzed through documentary evidence while the contested border and territorial nationalism theory was used as the analytical tool. The work discovered that factors like unresolved border issues, historical crisis, strategic concerns, ideological biases, failed diplomatic negotiations, military considerations, Tibetan refugees’ crisis, cold war dynamics, and limited communications were some of the issues that led to the border crisis between the two Asian giants. Furthermore, the work found out that the implications engendered by the China-India border crisis are serious and expansive like heavy militarization of the China-Indian border, strategic instability in Asia, India’s more assertive foreign policy, China global image damage, policy implications, and arm race between the two Asian giants. The work concluded that these Asian giants should strive for harmonious and sustainable joint boundary commission that will map and mark their boundary as this option if meticulously and strictly followed will tremendously benefit both and all.
Keywords
Key Words: Border, Crisis, Dispute, Causes, Implications
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