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China and India’s tense border dispute: What’s behind the massive troop movements and war of words?

India has vowed to “avenge the blood” of its soldiers in an increasingly tense border dispute with China, as troop movements build.

Shannon Molloy
news.com.au 
June 10, 2020 6:35pm

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This combination of two satellite photos near the border with India in far western region of Tibet in China show development around the airport. Picture: AP Source:AP


Military leaders from China and India will hold talks today in a bid to de-escalate tensions between the two nations, which have both assembled a mass of troops along a long stretch of border.

But neither side looks overly willing to backdown and uncertainty around what happens next is causing worry globally, thanks to the increasingly bitter rhetoric from Beijing and New Delhi.

China has displayed its increasingly bolshie approach to foreign affairs in recent months in the wake of criticism over its handling of the coronavirus pandemic ramped up.

As well as smacking trade restrictions on Australia, it has thrown barbs at the United States and President Donald Trump, while also clamping down on democracy protests in Hong Kong and making sinister overtures towards Taiwan.

India is also keen to assert its dominance and defend its border, while cozying up to Washington and extending trade and defence ties with Australia.

Friction over the border isn’t new, but the current climate is, foreign policy experts say – and that makes the situation highly volatile and unpredictable.


WHAT’S GOING ON?

India and China share one of the world’s longest border stretches and an agreed Line of Actual Control (LAC) separates the two nations.

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