Aksai Chin

Aksai Chin. Nehru’s Aksai Chin Blunder Claude Arpi ‘Delhi was not concerned’ ‘It would continue sleeping for several more years with the result that Indian territory is still occupied by China today’ says Claude Arpi One of the Nehru government’s biggest historical blunders has been the Aksai Chin road built by China on Indian soil without Delhi [].

Aksai Chin covers an area of about 14380 sq miles The area is largely a vast highaltitude desert with a low point on the Karakash river at about 14000 feet above the sea level.

SinoIndian border dispute Wikipedia

Aksai Chin is a relatively recent Chinese sponsored Uighur name Ladakhis & Tibetans called it by the Sanskrit name “Gosthana”(=place of the cows) Han Chinese have no history or presence in the region.

Aksai Chin: From Napoleon to Nehru – Center For Land

Aksai Chin is a disputed border area between China and India since 1950s China controls Aksai Chin area while India claims that it is part of Indian territory (Union territory of Ladakh) During the time of British rule in India two borders between India and China were proposed Johnson’s Line and McDonald Line.

"Why China retained Aksai Chin and gave up Southern Tibet

OverviewBackgroundBoundary disputesBoundary discussionsDispute management and resolution mechanismGeostrategic military aspectsList of disputed areasSee alsoThe SinoIndian border dispute is an ongoing territorial dispute over the sovereignty of two relatively large and several smaller separated pieces of territory between China and India The first of the territories Aksai Chin is administered by China as part of the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region and Tibet Autonomous Region and claimed by India as part of the union territory of Text under.