historically china was heavily interventionist, reserving to itself the right to arbitrate dispute between subject peoples and to send armed forces to impose its verdict. modern china clothed itself as a nation-state and withdrew from that confucian interventionism drastically, but eventually chinese power will define chinese sphere of interest and that interventionism may well return. for the moment, geographic convenience and fiscal restraint confine us only to kashmir and northern burma (and silly indians: don't speak of burma as a small country: put it on a map next to china and it may look small, but it is about 800 or 900 thousand sq km, and if we match it against india's small frame, which is probably no more than three, four times in size, burma isn't small at all). but once chinese power can be projected further, particularly after we establish land border with bangladesh, then chinese will happily submit their benevolent confusian interventionism to the strictest moral scrunity of the world community.