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TopicChina's 1959 claim line

Topic: China's 1959 claim line

India-China border can’t be changed. Formalising LAC as the redline is the answer

The India-China crisis has led to a de facto delineation of the 1959 Claim Line in Ladakh. Why can’t this delineation be extended to the rest of the LAC and the McMahon Line?

Watch CutTheClutter: What is the new India-China LAC deal in context of China’s 1959 claim line

In Episode 1543, ThePrint's Editor-in-Chief Shekhar Gupta looks at the agreement India and China reached on the Line of Actual Control last week.

Normalising India-China relations is an economic need. Modi is right to seek peace

Any future tactical agreement in Eastern Ladakh will be based on India accepting the 1959 claim line. The diplomatic challenge is to reach a face-saving agreement.

India, China’s stand on Hot Springs has 2 sticking points — Chang Chenmo, 1959 Claim Line

Indian govt's 'leak' about Hot Springs pullback is indicative of China's uncompromising approach to the Chang Chenmo Sector.

India’s answer to China’s Claim Line also lies in 1959

Like in fairy tales, the dragon’s life is not in its fire power. It could be in one of the soft underbellies, or all of them.

PLA’s eye is on 1959 Claim Line. But Modi, Xi can get around it and make peace before winter

The 1959 Claim Line tactically forecloses all Indian options to threaten Aksai Chin and other areas secured by the PLA prior to and during the 1962 War.

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India-US set to ink mini trade deal soon, reach understanding on agricultural & dairy products

Mini deal will likely see no cut in 10% baseline tariff on Indian exports announced by Trump on 2 April, it is learnt, but additional 26% tariffs are set to be reduced.

During Operation Sindoor, Pakistan likely used NATO-style aerial tactics taught by China

The Chinese are said to have hired ex-fighter pilots & air force operators from NATO countries over the past several years to help them fine-tune their operational & flying capabilities.

Strategic partner one day, tactical nightmare the next: India’s learning Trumplomacy the hard way

Public, loud, upfront, filled with impropriety and high praise sometimes laced with insults. This is what we call Trumplomacy. But the larger objective is the same: American supremacy.