Why China land border law is India’s fresh headache in Arunachal Pradesh, Aksai Chin

India and China have stayed engaged in a military standoff for about 18 months in Ladakh. Now a fresh irritant has cropped up between the two countries.

On October 26, Scottish historian William Dalrymple, who has written several books on Indian history, shared an article on Twitter that talked about “China’s six wars in the next 50 years”. Dalrymple commented: “A very worrying read. War 3 is ‘The war to recover southern Tibet (20352040)’ i.e. Arunachal Pradesh.”

China has for long been claiming that Arunachal Pradesh is South Tibet more as a bargaining chip to make India stop putting pressure on Aksai Chin that China occupied during the 1950s and consolidated its position after the 1962 War.