New row breaks out between India and China over maps

[IndoCarib]

New Delhi: A new territorial row has broken out between India and China. Sources in government have told NDTV that Beijing is issuing passports to its citizens which show a map that includes Arunachal Pradesh and Aksai Chin (in Ladakh) as part of China.

India is retaliating by stamping these passports with its own version of the map, marking out its own territorial boundaries. New Delhi has not yet taken this up at an official and diplomatic level with China, the sources said.

The Chinese map also shows South China Sea within its own territory. That too has been a sore point between Delhi and Beijing.

Speaking to NDTV, External Affairs Minister Salman Khurshid said, "We have issues with China, we have a history and everyone knows that. We, as a nation, have opted for an enlightened view of relation as a beneficial relation with China. Both countries have come to this conclusion. We ensure our flags of disagreement are put up immediately when something happens."

This new episode in a series of boundary disputes between the two countries comes week before India's National Security Advisor Shiv Shankar Menon visits China for border talks. The disputes have often interrupted India-China relations, though most of them are considered mere "pinpricks".

China had earlier refused to give visas to visitors from Arunachal Pradesh and Sikkim, claiming that they were Chinese areas. It has also started giving separate visas to visitors from the state of Jammu and Kashmir, claiming that it was not part of India.

The inclusion of South China Sea has already been objected to by Philippines and Vietnam, who too have claims over it. For India too, this will be an irritant, since it has signed agreements with the government of Vietnam to explore under-sea oil and gas deposits. China has been blocking this by staking territorial claim over the entire sea.

New row breaks out between India and China over maps | NDTV.com

 

[BigDaddyWatch]

Indians have a lot of maps that shows Aksai Chin as part of India.
Nations showing disputed territories on their maps is nothing new.

 

[IndoCarib]

Indians have a lot of maps that shows Aksai Chin as part of India.
Nations showing disputed territories on their maps is nothing new.

If Aksai chin is dipsuted the chinese map should have shown it as disputed. And not claim it as their own.

 

[IndoCarib]

Indians have a lot of maps that shows Aksai Chin as part of India.
Nations showing disputed territories on their maps is nothing new.

If Aksai chin is dipsuted the chinese map should have shown it as disputed. And not claim it as their own.

 

[deepak.chauhan2312]

doesn't matter

 

[SinoChallenger]

Good, now we can start raining bombs down on new delhi from our airbases in Tibet.

 

[navtrek]

Good, now we can start raining bombs down on new delhi from our airbases in Tibet.

lol u forgot the nukes!

 

[acetophenol]

Good, now we can start raining bombs down on new delhi from our airbases in Tibet.

Good bro,i just brought a new umbrella!

 

[Soumitra]

Good, now we can start raining bombs down on new delhi from our airbases in Tibet.

Megaton nukes?

 

[BigDaddyWatch]

If Aksai chin is dipsuted the chinese map should have shown it as disputed. And not claim it as their own.

That's the point of being disputed China claims the territory as it own and so does India. Both countries print this territory as part of their respective countries on their maps.

 

[AUSTERLITZ]

Good, now we can start raining bombs down on new delhi from our airbases in Tibet.

No no plz more of china's thousands megatons of nucleaur deterrence.

 

[Chinese-Dragon]

If Aksai chin is dipsuted the chinese map should have shown it as disputed. And not claim it as their own.

What logic is this?

Do Indian maps show Arunachal Pradesh as disputed?

Double-standards much?

 

[acid rain]

I guess it's time we sit across and sort out this mess once and for all.

 

[AUSTERLITZ]

We should just swap aksai for arunachal,china needs aksai to connect xinjiaang and arunachal people want nothing with china.Just use common sense and settle the dispute.

 

[Arya Desa]

Good, now we can start raining bombs down on new delhi from our airbases in Tibet.

The cheena like you have to be, by far, the most war mongering state in the world. China is little more than an insecure state trying to show off to the world.