Alarm !!!

   NEW DELHI — It was supposed to be a “golden period” in relations between India and China, but it is looking seriously tarnished. But already India and China are squabbling again, and their frontier is the flash point.

The spat, experts say, is a symptom of a deterioration in relations that began in 2005, as India drew closer to the United States and negotiated a civil nuclear cooperation agreement. China claims the northeastern Indian state of Arunachal Pradesh, a thickly forested, mountainous region that shares cultural links with Tibet. India contests China’s occupation of a barren plateau in Kashmir, far to the west.

The extent of the deterioration in relations was underlined this week when a team of Indian foreign policy experts and former senior officials warned that India needed to be better prepared in case China decided to assert its territorial claims by force.

India is the world’s largest arms importer, and as tensions with China have risen, it has embarked on a military-modernization plan that is expected to cost $100 billion over the next decade.

In January, India selected France’s Rafale for a $15 billion contract to supply 126 new fighter jets, while the air force has been upgrading landing strips throughout the Himalayas.

Here are few clips showing border controversies

PAKISTANS’S CLAIM:

 

CURRENT BORDERS(India's claim):

 CHINA’S CLAIM: