The Pakistan government has now banned any political party that is opposed to China's Belt & Road Initiative. The China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) is a multi-billion-dollar infrastructure development project intended to connect Asia with Europe, the Middle East and Africa. This recent border incident is China moving back into the Ladakh region as part of CPEC. China is currently investing in projects in Pakistan's infrastructure particularly at the port city of Gwadar. The Gwadar Port is the world's deepest sea port located on the Arabian Sea at Gwadar in Balochistan province of Pakistan. It will become a strategic shipping and military port under China's Belt & Road Initiative and this concerns the US. As it stands now, Pakistan owes China $10 billion for the infrastructure development at Gwadar Port according to western military sources describing China's investments in Pakistan as "predatory economics."
As part of the CPEC China has invested in the construction of a dam in the Kashmir region which the Indian government objected to further increasing tensions. The further Pakistan is burdened with debt the more it will look to China for assistance in these types of infrastructure projects. The anticipated total worth of CPEC is around $46 billion which will deepen ties between China and Pakistan. The more this global coronavirus planned epidemic takes its grip on respective countries, the more Pakistan will rely on China to pull Pakistan out of its economic morass. The mist significant aspect concerning the Chinese run port at Gwadar in Pakistan, is that this port will open up trade with Afghanistan under the Afghanistan-Pakistan Transit Trade Agreement (APTTA). In 2013 operations of the port and Gwadar Free Zone were handed over to the China Overseas Port Holding Company (CPOHC).
China-Pakistan Economic Corridor
CPEC – China's most ambitious project in Pakistan has become a corridor to nowhere
China invade Ladak India
This incident happened four years ago in the same Ladakh region...
Source: The National Interest
How China Defeated India in a Terrifying 1962 War
Yes, it really happened.
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by Robert Farley | February 11, 2020
Key point: The Chinese-Indian War still has implications for how each country views the other today.
In 1962, the world's two most populous countries went to war against one another in a pair of remote, mountainous border regions. In less than a month, China dealt India a devastating defeat, driving Indian forces back on all fronts. Along with breaking hopes of political solidarity in the developing world, the war helped structure the politics of East and Southeast Asia for generations. Even today, as Indian and Chinese forces square off on the Doklam Plateau, the legacy of the 1962 resonates in both countries.
Who Fought?
While both the Chinese and Indian governments were relatively new (the People's Republic of China was declared in Beijing in 1949, two years after the India won its independence), the armed forces that would fight the war could not have been more different.
The Indian Army developed firmly in light of India's imperial heritage. Large Indian formations had fought in several theaters of World War II, including North Africa and Burma. These forces would, in many ways, form the core of the new Indian military. The post-independence Indian armed forces were structured along lines broadly similar to that of India’s colonial antecedent, the United Kingdom, and in the early years operated mostly with Western equipment. This incarnation of the Indian Army saw its first action in the 1947, in the first Kashmir War, fighting against its erstwhile associates in the Pakistani Army.
The Chinese experience could not have been more different. The People's Liberation Army (PLA) emerged as the military arm of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), a revolutionary organization with both urban and rural roots. The PLA experienced nearly twenty years of uninterrupted major combat operations after its creation, fighting bitter conflicts against the Nationalist armies of Chiang Kai-shek, then against the Imperial Japanese Army, and finally against the American-led UN coalition in Korea.
The war did not involve air or naval forces from either India or China. This worked in China's favor; the Indian Navy was considerably superior to the People's Liberation Army Navy at the time, and the Indian Air Force (equipped mostly with British and French fighters) had an advantage in modern equipment. Moreover, the PLA did not develop a competence in combined air-ground operations for another generation. However, poor coordination on the Indian part, combined with the forbidding terrain, prevented the extensive use of combat aircraft. A disinterest in escalation meant that the navy would play no role in the conflict.
Why It Was Fought
The immediate cause of the war was a territorial dispute between India and China along two sections of the border. The colonial-era demarcations between China and Tibet had left the disposition of certain sectors unclear, a development that would recur not only in modern Chinese history, but across the developing world, as newly independent countries began to flex their muscles. Numerous incidents occurred in the years before the war, usually resulting in light casualties on either side.
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Source: The Hindu
Tension continues on LAC between India and China
By Dinakar Peri and Suhasini Haidar | MAY 23, 2020
This is a big concern at this point, as these run close to the 255 km Darbuk-Shyok-Daulat Beg Oldi (DSDBO) road, a vital link for the military.
India is "closely monitoring the situation and taking appropriate steps" sources said a day after Army Chief General Manoj Naravane visited the Leh-based 14 Corps headquarters to review the "overall situation on the ground," even as reports indicated that Chinese troops remain in areas along the Line of Actual Control (LAC) in eastern Ladakh that are patrolled by India.
"Situation remains tense at Pangong Tso, Galwan Nalah and Demchok. It is being closely monitored," sources said, as more troops are being moved into the areas of conflict in Sikkim and Ladakh.
In particular, sources told The Hindu that Chinese troops are maintaining positions at 3-4 points along the Galwan nalah, from "point 14 to Gogra mountain".
Crucial road
This is a big concern at this point, as these run close to the 255 km Darbuk-Shyok-Daulat Beg Oldi (DSDBO) road, a vital link for the military.
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According to the sources, at each of these points, the PLA has stationed troops, dug in tents and even bunkers. The situation has been escalating since initial incursions in mid-April, after Indian and Chinese soldiers exchanged blows and inflicted injuries.
Another worry, said an officer previously posted in the area, is the fact that skirmishes took place at so many points, indicating a more coordinated push by the PLA.
"Simultaneous incidents across the LAC in Eastern Ladakh at Pangong Tso, Galwan Nalah and Demchok, are a big worry" the officer said, on condition of anonymity.
Planned incursion
"Normally stand-offs happen in a local area, but are resolved at the local level," a former Northern Army Commander, (who also asked not to be named), told The Hindu, adding that the current situation, which indicates planning at a "higher level in China" must be resolved at the diplomatic and political level.
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