Five Agreements Between India And China

09 Avr Five Agreements Between India And China

The non-resolution of the border conflict led to the Salino-Indian war in 1962 and there was no definitive agreement between the countries on the exact location of the LAC. According to Alyssa Ayres, South Asia specialist at the Council on Foreign Relations, « China and India have different views of where they should be, resulting in regular border crossings. Often these tensions do not escalate; A serious border demarcation situation, such as the one we have at the moment, is less common, although it is the fourth since 2013. Signed in Beijing on September 7, 1993, available on the Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs (AMF) contract database in English, Chinese and Hindi. All three texts have the same validity. An English copy is also available in the UN Peacemaker database. According to a summary on the UN peacemakers` website, the agreement provides « a framework for border security between the parties until a final decision is taken on the delimitation of borders. » The parties agree to « minimize military forces in areas along effective control » and to « reduce military personnel » with friendly and quality relations between them. (Article 2) They also agree to implement confidence-building measures along the LAC`s control, including prior notifying « military exercises at certain levels close to the effective line of control authorized by this agreement. » (Article 2) Jawaharlal Nehru justified his vision of the « recovery of Asia » by the friendship between the two largest states in Asia; his vision of an internationalist foreign policy governed by the ethics of the Panchsheel (Five Principles of Peaceful Coexistence), which he initially believed was shared by China. What was remarkable was that Bhimrao Ambedkar was surprised that Nehru took Panchsheel seriously,[37] while Acharya Kriplani said that the Panchsheel was « born in sin ». [37] Nehru was disappointed when it became clear that the two countries had a conflict of interest in Tibet, which traditionally served as a buffer zone. India is concerned about China`s water diversion, dam construction and cross-river plans. In a conflict, India fears that China will use rivers as leverage.

China has already built ten dams on the Bhramaputra and its tributaries such as the Zangmu Dam, and it has been said that China is building a mega-dam on the « big bend », the Motuo Dam.