China and its disputes

A study finds that  since 1949, China has settled seventeen of its twenty-three territorial disputes and has offered  compromises in most of these settlements.Regime insecurity prevalent in totalitarian states, might  explain China’s pattern of cooperation / delay in its territorial disputes with others. Currently China suffers from no major internal upheavals. But then China's great wall screens its politics as well. We are having territorial disputes with China for ages now. Our greater concern should be the Chinese pseudo suzerainty over river waters flowing into India.Our  insistence on installing monitors , in April this year to share hydro logical data pursuant to China's plan for three big dams on Brahmaputra,  triggered their  stepped up   rhetoric on Arunachal Predesh.These  will predictably continue to occur, for one reason or another. We must not lose sight of of our vital  riverine interests ,keep
pegging away at the  important aspects of our bilateral equations and  react soberly to   transient  incidents as stapled visas and the like.
 (Published ET Dec 6 )
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