India complains of constant incursions by Chinese

India complains of constant incursions by Chinese troops on its territory.

China has become'm trading partner of India, relations between Beijing and New Delhi through on the diplomatic front, a turbulent period characterized these days by acrimonious exchanges between the two capitals.

At the root of problems between the two Asian giants, who have clashed briefly in 1962, the issue never resolved their border disputes in the absence of a formal line of cease-fire in the north-east of 'India, China claims the state of Arunachal Pradesh, a territory of 90 000 square kilometers.

To the west, India protested against the continuous occupation since the conflict between the two nations, 38 000 square kilometers of territory of Kashmir, the Himalayan region of Aksai Chin.

Tuesday, October 13, spokesman of Chinese Foreign Ministry, Ma Zhaoxu, strongly protested against the recent visit of Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, in Arunachal Pradesh.

A high-level visit in the disputed territory never failing to provoke the wrath of China: "We urge the Indian side to take into account the serious concerns of China and not cause disturbances to enable healthy development of relations between China and India, "said Ma.

A few hours later, his Indian counterpart, Vishnu Prakash, said from New Delhi that the state of Arunachal is "an integral and inalienable part of India" and expressed "disappointment and concern" in New Delhi before the hostile reaction from Beijing.

Mr. Prakash has insisted that the visit of the Head of Government of India, October 3, was not unusual and was a routine visit in advance of upcoming local elections in this state.

Project "illegal"

In this context already tense, India protested Wednesday, October 14, cons "Chinese activities" in the Pakistani part of Kashmir after the signing last month between Islamabad and Beijing for a project to build a dam costing s 'raises more than $ 12 billion.

India believes that such a project financed by China, an old ally of his rival Pakistan, is "illegal" since this part of Kashmir is a disputed territory between New Delhi and Islamabad.

In Beijing, the press releases of the system these days of bitter editorials against India, as just done on Wednesday, in its English newspaper The Global Times: India and China "seem to have more reasons to confront than to find common ground, "wrote the paper regrets that" after more than ten rounds of negotiations at different levels in decades, both countries have failed to rise significantly (about the border issue).




Already in 2006, India had complained of "hundreds of incursions by Chinese troops" on its territory and ever since to protest against the proliferation of "aggressive patrolling" the Chinese side in the area of Arunachal.




The tension has grown. In June, General J. J. Singh, Governor of Arunachal and former Chief of Defense Staff, announced that India would deploy two divisions of 30 000 troops along the border. A few days later, four fighter Sukhoi Su-30 MIK the Indian Air Force settled on the basis of Tezpur in Assam, the gateway to northern states east.




In September, the Indian army has strengthened its defenses in the districts of Kinnaur, Lahaul and Spiti, situated along the Tibetan border. "The deterioration of Sino-Indian relationship would probably not lead to a conflict in the short term, but a sustained confrontation will have severe economic and political repercussions for both sides," Analysis in New Delhi Swaran Singh, Professor at the Jawaharlal Nehru University, a specialist in diplomatic and author of a book on China's strategy in South Asia.




Mr. Singh receives Chinese aggression in the result of the rapprochement between India and the United States under the Bush administration, which had alarmed China, "Now that the White House wants closer relations with Beijing and be less inclined to focus on India - given the issue of arms control desired by Barack Obama - China believes it may be time to give vent to repressed anger. "