"peaceful reunification always is the preferred choice, but not giving up the use of force if provoked." Provoked how? Don't be coy. You mean to say if the people of Taiwan invoke their right to self-determination or dare utter 独立这两个字, then China will have to murder them and their children. But yes, peace-loving. Never mind the "peaceful" methods China has used to retain its Qing Dynasty conquests and staunchly resist any sort of decolonization of its own. How magnanimous of the PRC to retain its huge empire and not desire any more conquests! (apart from the ones you say are already yours, because taking your own territory could never be conquest, right? isn't that a nice trick?)
"But that is just that, a border dispute, and we are looking for ways to resolve them. (For example, with Vietnam). It is not about aggression and military conquest." Tell that to the Filipino fisherman or the soldiers at the Galwan River Valley.
Yes 1962 is correct. I am curious as to how China is looking at settling the border issue with India. We have around 60,000 troops locked in Himalayan areas which are inhospitable really. It would be understandable if India were pro US and was just toeing the American line. If anything, the opposite is true. India has resisted all pressure to impose sanctions on Russia. It even prioritised its relations with China despite the Pakistan angle. There was tremendous momentum and I only have to look back a few years when I would read about Chinese investors in Bangalore looking to invest in startups. In fact Shanghai and Bangalore flights were quite packed always. It was almost like flying within India or perhaps even more traffic than that. Why the sudden change at the border from China? To me it makes very little sense.
I have to say I really do not know as much as to comment in this regard, but from what I feel there is no will to escalate or even ample will to settle the dispute when the time comes. And I think India's preference for fighting for your own interests, rather than toeing the line with any outside power, is respected by many Chinese.
What do you say about Tibet? It claims significant portions of Indian land apart from that which it took during the war in 1964. Nope that is not peaceful
I assume you refer to the border war in 1962, not 1964. Border-related wars and skirmishes were indeed quite common, not only with India, but with Soviet Union (1969), Vietnam (1979) as well. I’d say we are still trying to figure out what to do with borders in a post-colonial world order, because before European colonisers came, the idea of a border didn’t even exist. After they left, they left us with a mess that we would need to figure out, hopefully in peace
Are there good resources to understand the Chinese identity as a nation-state, that also thread the needle between China's gargantuan past and Modern China? Books, journals, essays?
"peaceful reunification always is the preferred choice, but not giving up the use of force if provoked." Provoked how? Don't be coy. You mean to say if the people of Taiwan invoke their right to self-determination or dare utter 独立这两个字, then China will have to murder them and their children. But yes, peace-loving. Never mind the "peaceful" methods China has used to retain its Qing Dynasty conquests and staunchly resist any sort of decolonization of its own. How magnanimous of the PRC to retain its huge empire and not desire any more conquests! (apart from the ones you say are already yours, because taking your own territory could never be conquest, right? isn't that a nice trick?)
"But that is just that, a border dispute, and we are looking for ways to resolve them. (For example, with Vietnam). It is not about aggression and military conquest." Tell that to the Filipino fisherman or the soldiers at the Galwan River Valley.
I am not going to deny broad strokes of words hide individual pains. The Taiwan issue is especially tricky, and can be very emotional.
Yes 1962 is correct. I am curious as to how China is looking at settling the border issue with India. We have around 60,000 troops locked in Himalayan areas which are inhospitable really. It would be understandable if India were pro US and was just toeing the American line. If anything, the opposite is true. India has resisted all pressure to impose sanctions on Russia. It even prioritised its relations with China despite the Pakistan angle. There was tremendous momentum and I only have to look back a few years when I would read about Chinese investors in Bangalore looking to invest in startups. In fact Shanghai and Bangalore flights were quite packed always. It was almost like flying within India or perhaps even more traffic than that. Why the sudden change at the border from China? To me it makes very little sense.
I have to say I really do not know as much as to comment in this regard, but from what I feel there is no will to escalate or even ample will to settle the dispute when the time comes. And I think India's preference for fighting for your own interests, rather than toeing the line with any outside power, is respected by many Chinese.
What do you say about Tibet? It claims significant portions of Indian land apart from that which it took during the war in 1964. Nope that is not peaceful
I assume you refer to the border war in 1962, not 1964. Border-related wars and skirmishes were indeed quite common, not only with India, but with Soviet Union (1969), Vietnam (1979) as well. I’d say we are still trying to figure out what to do with borders in a post-colonial world order, because before European colonisers came, the idea of a border didn’t even exist. After they left, they left us with a mess that we would need to figure out, hopefully in peace
Are there good resources to understand the Chinese identity as a nation-state, that also thread the needle between China's gargantuan past and Modern China? Books, journals, essays?
Maybe Jonathan D. Spence’s The Search for Modern China