The armies of India and China were locked in a bitter dead end in Ladakh.
China led by President Xi Jinping has stepped up its “aggressive” foreign policy towards India and “resisted” efforts to clarify the real line of control that has prevented achieving lasting peace.
The armies of India and China have been locked in a bitter deadlock in several places in eastern Ladakh in the past seven weeks, and tension has escalated after the deaths of 20 Indian soldiers in the carrying out their duties during a violent confrontation in the Galwan Valley on June 15.
“Under the secretary general of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) Xi Jinping, Beijing has intensified its aggressive foreign policy towards New Delhi. Since 2013, China has engaged in five major arguments with India along the line of control real (LAC), “said a brief released by the Chinese-American Economic and Security Review Board.
“Beijing and New Delhi have signed a series of agreements and pledged to take confidence-building measures to stabilize their border, but China has resisted efforts to clarify the LAC, preventing lasting peace from happening,” said indicated the report. requests the Commission to support its deliberations.
Written by Will Green, policy analyst with the Commission’s Security and Foreign Affairs team, the report says that the Chinese government is particularly concerned about India’s growing relations with the United States and its allies and partners .
“The latest border clash is part of a larger scheme in which Beijing seeks to warn New Delhi not to align with Washington,” he added.
After Xi took power in 2012, there has been a significant increase in clashes, despite the fact that he has met with Prime Minister Narendra Modi on several occasions and that Beijing and New Delhi have agreed on a series of mechanisms of confidence intended to relieve tensions.
Before 2013, the last major border confrontation took place in 1987. The 1950s and 1960s were a particularly tense period, culminating in 1962 with a war that left thousands of people dead on both sides, according to archives. People’s Liberation Army of China, the report said.
“The 2020 skirmish is consistent with Beijing’s increasingly assertive foreign policy. The clash came as Beijing aggressively pressed its other expansive claims to sovereignty in the Indo-Pacific region, such as Taiwan and the seas from southern and eastern China, “he said. .
China is involved in hotly contested territorial disputes in the South China Sea and the East China Sea. Beijing has built and militarized many islands and reefs it controls in the region. The two regions are said to be rich in minerals, petroleum and other natural resources and are vital to world trade.
China claims almost all of the South China Sea. Vietnam, the Philippines, Malaysia, Brunei and Taiwan have counterclaims in the region.
Weeks before the Galwan Valley clash, Chinese Defense Minister Wei Fenghe called on Beijing to “use the fighting to promote stability” as the country’s external security environment deteriorates, an indication China’s intention to proactively engage in military tensions with its neighbors to project an image of strength, the report said.
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