From: Sanjeev
China-India Border Talks
A Fruitless Dialogue
Brahma Chellaney
The New Indian Express, August 17, 2009
The broadening of the Sino-Indian border talks into an all-encompassing strategic dialogue is an unmistakable reminder that the negotiations stand deadlocked. Yet neither side wants to abandon the fruitless process.
In the period since the border negotiations began nearly three decades ago, the world has changed fundamentally. Indeed, with its rapidly accumulating military and economic power, China itself has emerged as a great power in the making. The longer the negotiating process continues without yielding results, the greater the space Beijing will have to mount strategic pressure on India and leverage its position. After all, China already holds the military advantage on the ground. Its forces control the heights along the long 4.057-kilometer Himalayan frontier. Furthermore, by building new railroads, airports and highways in Tibet, China is now in a position to rapidly move additional forces to the border to potentially strike at India at a time of its choosing.
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