India - China: Relations And Developments

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<b>China : Beijing ’s Arunachal Pradesh Card- </b> <!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->China has always been territorially ambitious. Mao’s description of China ’s palm ( Tibet ) and ‘five fingers ( Nepal , Sikkim , Bhutan , NEFA and Ladakh) is well known.    The PRC had conveyed to the world a ‘historical loss’ of territories through their maps and atlas series.  As points of India ’s interest, the maps had claimed that entire Assam , even Andamans, was ‘historically’ part of China . What is to be remembered is that the PRC never gives up its border claims. To suit to its requirement of peaceful international atmosphere including in the neighbourhood for realisation of modernisation task, it prefers to ‘shelve’ the difficult border issues, like the one with India and instead work for ‘common development’. For e.g the PRC wants to ‘shelve’ the South China Sea territorial dispute, leave the Senkaku issue with Japan for ‘future generations’ to solve and ‘put aside the Sino-Indian border dispute waiting for a suitable climate for solution’ (Deng to Vajpayee, 1979). <!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->