An analysis Nicolas Laflamme
The Sino-Indian relations are again tested. One of the latest row comes from the fact that since last May, the Chinese government sends to students and men / women in Indian Kashmir visa handwritten on separate pages, stapled to their passport . We can legitimately question the Chinese strategy to give special treatment to citizens of a separatist region while China is itself grappling with internal secessionist movements in the provinces of Xinjiang and Tibet.
policy of issuing visas may apply separately for some reason quite clear. It sometimes takes this measure to prevent discrimination that could lead visiting a country. This is one where visitors who go to Israel. This State n'étampe not directly travelers' passports since they could be denied a visa in another country hostile to Israel. This practice can also be done when a country does not officially recognize the control of another country on a disputed territory.
The Chinese embassy in Delhi offered separate visa for some years, but only for residents of the State of Arunachal Pradesh, a territory whose border of 3,500 kilometers with China still remains a very sensitive subject of dispute. In 2007, the Chinese government admitted that he had refused to issue a visa to an Indian Administrative Officer of Arunachal Pradesh. Since that time, citizens of Arunachal who travel to China are issuing visas stamped on a sheet paperback their passport. The Kashmiris are now offering the same treatment.
Question of lather just the tensions, a senior Kashmiri separatist leader, Molvi Abbas Ansari, said the decision reflects China's recognition of Kashmir as disputed territory . Moreover, the Chinese government began offering to journalists visiting Tibet a free brochure "information base" describing the province as close to Burma, Nepal, India and Kashmir. India is genuinely offended to see a part of its territory named alongside sovereign and independent State.
This position China's recent deal to Kashmir is another step in its policy on the disputed region of Indian subcontinent. While China adopted a neutral stance in the 50s on the Kashmir issue during the 60s and 70s, due to border issues still pending with India, Beijing changed its position toward public support in Pakistan. It should be noted here that Pakistan is in favor of a resolution of the Kashmir problem by consulting the local population, while India claims the region in its entirety. However, with the improvement of Sino-Indian relations in the early 80s, China had returned to a neutral position, and later in the 90 states that the conflict in Kashmir was an issue that should be settled bilaterally between India and Pakistan. After the India-Pakistan conflict of 1999, China called on Pakistan to withdraw from the territories belonging de facto Kashmiri to India, and thereby accepted the delimitation of Kashmir. Since November 2003, India and Pakistan maintain a cease-fire on both sides of the Line of Control (one of the most militarized border in the world) that divides their respective region of Kashmir. The Indians were also built after 2003 a electrified fence on the border that Pakistan condemns . While Kashmiris called earlier this month for talks to resolve the conflict, will no real cooperation on the part of Delhi has been expressed.
China, with the development that we know, beyond any doubt has advantage to promote a stable and peaceful Asia, particularly in its border regions. One wonders, therefore, again, while the slogan of Chinese Communist Party (CCP) is currently maintaining a "society harmonious, "why raise new disagreements with neighboring India? One wonders if the China-Pakistan friendly relations have something to do with this ... Although India has warned China not to get involved in projects on the territory of Pakistani Kashmir in August , China signed an agreement with Pakistan on the construction of a hydroelectric project of 7,000 megawatts at Bunji (Kashmiri region of Pakistan). Both countries are also working on improving Karakoram Highway that links Kashgar in Xinjiang province, from Gilgit and Bunji by Pakistan in Kashmir, Havelin up near Pakistan.
Although Sino-Indian War of 1962, which cost the region of Aksai Chin in India, seems far behind, border conflicts are again more than ever between the current heavyweights. Whether incursions in Ladakh in the east Indian state of Jammu and Kashmir for a few months ago and repeated intrusions, including that of a helicopter in Arunachal Pradesh, these activities among other negative outcomes that diplomatic joint military exercises that took place in 2007 and 2008 will not place this year between the two countries.
Deterioration of Sino-Indian is also expressed by the efforts China has succeeded in August, to deny a vote to grant India a loan from the Asian Development Bank which included funding for projects in Arunachal Pradesh.
Another aspect to come to watch closely is the visit of the famous globetrotter known as the Dalai Lama, scheduled for 8 November in Tawang, in the Indian state of Arunachal Pradesh. This event not highly contested PPC is far ahead of the warm relations between these two rising powers ...
Nicolas Laflamme, Kunming
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