Thursday, 19 May, 2022
TopicAksai Chin

Topic: Aksai Chin

Does Imran Khan’s Gilgit-Baltistan vow mean Pakistan has accepted India’s Article 370 move?

Jyoti Malhotra -
In Gilgit-Baltistan, geography trumps politics. And China, India and Pakistan are in the new Great Game.

Why report on Capt Rajendra Nath’s 1952 expedition to Aksai Chin is classified to this day

Iqbal Chand Malhotra -
In ‘Red Fear’, Iqbal Chand Malhotra writes that former Army chief Gen Cariappa had sent a recon mission to Aksai Chin. Nehru govt never made findings public.

Satellite images reveal continued Chinese military build-up in Tibet and Aksai Chin areas

Snehesh Alex Philip -
According to an assessment, Chinese troops appear to be getting ready for long & harsh winters, making the Indian Army cautious about the disengagement process.

Borders aren’t autonomous facts, they can’t be made irrelevant in the world of power-play

TN Ninan -
Contemporary Indian maps including Aksai Chin were printed only on Nehru’s orders in the 1950s. The Chinese have no better historical claim.

Galwan clash is a turning point as Indian soldiers give Chinese a bloody nose

Jyoti Malhotra -
Indian democracy's chaotic nature rescued PM Modi after his muddled messages from the all-party meeting even as 2 messages from Galwan clash went out into the world.

Ladakh, scenic Himalayan desert at the centre of most fierce India-China conflict in 53 yrs

Azaan Javaid -
Ladakh’s barren landscape used to be populated by tourists, until PLA incursion in Galwan Valley and the killing of 20 Indian soldiers turned it into the ground zero of LAC conflict.

The Chinese are so predictable, Modi & Shah should’ve seen them coming on 5 August 2019

Shekhar Gupta -
India should’ve anticipated the Chinese appearance in Ladakh, even the timing of it, when the status of Jammu & Kashmir was changed.

China believes India wants Aksai Chin back. PLA has likely secured 40-60 sq km in Ladakh

Lt Gen H S Panag (retd) -
Ladakh is the only area where physical military collusion can take place between Pakistan and China.

Amit Shah’s political aim to recover PoK is not backed by India’s military capacity

Lt Gen H S Panag (retd) -
By comparing the illegal occupation of PoK with that of Aksai Chin, India for the first time has diplomatically put China on defensive.

Pakistan threatens to escalate tensions after Jaishankar’s PoK remark

Nayanima Basu -
As Jaishankar says India expects to have 'physical jurisdiction' over PoK 'one day', Pakistan calls his statement ‘belligerent’.
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Asian refiners to ramp up gasoline exports to US as sky-high prices beckon

Elizabeth Low -
In Asia, gasoline margins have doubled to more than $33 a barrel since the end of March and have edged above those for diesel, which have eased from a peak in early May.

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India to ink ‘repeat order’ deal for 73,000 SiG 716 rifles from the US

Snehesh Alex Philip -
In February 2019, 72,400 SiG 716 rifles of 7.62 x 51mm calibre were contracted from SIG Sauer Inc, USA, under government's 'Buy (Global) category', through fast track procedure.

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How Congress is like the Ambassador & why Indian politics needs a brand new set of wheels

Shekhar Gupta -
Like the car, nothing the party has done to reinvent itself has worked. Only way forward is to offer something looking towards the future, not in image of glorious past.

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