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NEW DELHI (AP) — India and China have agreed to work urgently to achieve the withdrawal of tens of thousands of troops stationed along their disputed border in a long-running standoff, India’s government said.

Indian Foreign Minister Subrahmanyam Jaishankar met his Chinese counterpart, Wang Yi, on Thursday on the sidelines of Association of Southeast Asian Nations meetings in Laos, where they stressed the need for an early resolution of outstanding issues along the disputed Line of Actual Control, the long Himalayan border shared by the two Asian giants.

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[-] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

As a westerner, I have probably no understanding what that relationship is like outside of our media. Do these two states actually have issue with each other, or are they gonna wake up one day and realize they are 3/8 of the planet and start rattling their collective sabre.

[-] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago

They have had skirmishes in the past and they will have issues very soon as the Himalayan glaciers start to disappear since both nations rely on them for a large amount of their fresh water. I think they're both highly aware of that.

But also, Modi is a Hindu nationalist and Xi is an ethnic Chinese nationalist. Rulers of ethnostates stick together!

[-] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago

Rulers of ethnostates stick together!

This is sarcasm, right?

[-] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

Not really. See Germany, Italy and Japan. "All of our people stay in our country and all of your people stay in your country" is a good way to make allies with other bigots.

[-] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago

each see each other as a threat. there's disputes on various territories across the 4k km himalayan border for one. both countries fought a war in the 1970s around these disputes and, by all reliable accounts, it was india that ceded territory then.

separately, india has provided sanctuary to the current dalai lama for many, many years now and also is a refugee base for tibetans, which mr. xi and his folks don't appreciate.

india has also banned tiktok since its inception as well as access to alibaba and other online chinese stores.

china's relationship with indian neighbours is seen as a threat as well, be it of a strategic nature such as their belt and road initiative with pakistan, their predatory relationship over sri lanka after drowning them with easy loans, or their latest "coup" in the maldives where the long-standing india-friendly government lost out in the last elections to a party that campaigned on "india out" and who were very pally with winnie the pooh and gang.

the geopolitical relationship is stereotypical of two neighbours who hate each other so much that each would go out of their way to torment the other.

[-] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago

Can we say 4 mega meters? I know I'd think millimeter if it was mm,but if it was Mm would you assume there was a mistake or would it make sense?

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