Border tensions between India and China are tightly linked to Tibet’s complex history and strategic significance. China’s occupation of Tibet in 1950 erased the buffer that once separated the two ...

Beijing’s renaming campaign is an element of a larger “grey zone” strategy—operations that fall below the threshold of armed conflict but are intended to incrementally shift the status quo. These ...

Tibet and Aksai Chin… China deploys powerful super radars to track Indian missiles; Is India’s nuclear plan under threat? India’s missile program is among the most advanced in the world ...

The 1962 Sino-Indian war, sparked by these border disputes, saw China temporarily advance into Arunachal Pradesh and Aksai Chin, another disputed region further west.

On Dec. 3, 2024, Indian External Affairs Minister Subrahmanyam Jaishankar released a statement on “recent developments in the India China border areas and their implications for our overall bilateral ...

China says it considers the whole of Arunachal Pradesh its territory, calling it "South Tibet" - a claim India firmly rejects. India claims the Aksai Chin plateau in the Himalayas, which is ...

China is planning to build another highway through Aksai Chin, running along the India border and connecting Xinjiang with Tibet, according to a newly released highway construction plan.

One of the most desolate and lonely places in the world is also becoming the most dangerous. In Aksai Chin, on the border between China and India, the respective countries’ troops have squared ...

At the end of last August, China’s Ministry of Natural Resources released a new map that rendered Aksai Chin and Arunachal Pradesh as Chinese territory. China has published such maps before.

Beijing considers the region part of Tibet and announced new Chinese place names there in April. Its map also includes Aksai Chin in the west, controlled by China but claimed by India.

When the war ended on November 21, 1962, China retained control of Aksai Chin but pulled back from India’s Northeast. Why? The two sectors are historically very different.

In light of Beijing's unveiling of the 2023 “standard map of China,” portraying Aksai Chin and Arunachal Pradesh as its territory, this development has emerged.