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Afghanistan/South Asia
China, India end border talks
2005-09-28
BEIJING - China and India on Tuesday ended two days of talks aimed at settling their border disputes, but there was no immediate sign of progress as the two sides agreed to meet again in New Delhi. India’s special representative, National Security Advisor M.K. Narayanan, and Chinese Vice Foreign Minister Dai Bingguo led the sixth round of bilateral talks on the boundary issues.

Chinese foreign ministry spokesman Qin Gang said the two sides agreed to hold a seventh round of talks in New Delhi on a date to be decided later, but he did not say whether the two sides made any progress in Beijing. “The atmosphere for resolving the border issue has improved,” Qin told reporters. “The two sides have the sincerity to seek a solution to this issue.”

But one state media report quoted an unidentified analyst as saying the border talks were in their “toughest phase”.

The government’s official Xinhua news agency quoted Jia Qinglin, a leading member of the politburo of China’s Communist Party, as telling Narayanan that China hoped the border disputes would be ”settled in fair and reasonable way at an early date”.
Posted by:Steve White

#3  Actually, China seized Indian territory in 1962, not during the Indo-Paki War of 1965.
Posted by: Cornelius   2005-09-28 12:42  

#2  Silliness. Orson Scott Card addressed war between India and China in one of the Ender's Shadow books (Shadow of the Hegemon, perhaps?). Both civilizations historically dealt with invasions by culturally absorbing the invaders. China might well kill a lot of people and break lots of stuff, but India won't stay conquered long term.
Posted by: trailing wife   2005-09-28 07:49  

#1  Six rounds of talks and no progress.

Not surprising when the Chinese strategy is
"what's mine is mine, what's yours is negotiable"

China wants to keep all the Indian territory it captured in the 1965 war and have India cede further territory.

The ceded territory is of course strategically significant and would allow easy capture of more Indian territory if, say in 30 years, Chinese archaeologists discover that a guy from the Ming dynasty had a crap somewhere in India. That place, naturally, is historically Chinese, and should be returned to the motherland.

Posted by: john   2005-09-28 06:41  

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