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| Disputed Arunachal Pradesh (File Photo) |
By Ankit Panda
India’s Home Minister Rajnath Singh’s comments were ostensibly directed at Beijing.
Following U.S. President Barack Obama’s departure from India after a major bilateral visit, Indian Home Minister Rajnath Singh said that India had “honest intentions” in resolving all disputes with China, referring specifically to the land-based border disputes between the two countries. India and China currently dispute the territories of Aksai Chin in Kashmir and Arunachal Pradesh. The former is administered by China and claimed by India whereas the latter is administered by India as a state and is claimed in its entirety by China as “South Tibet.” The two countries fought a war in 1962 in which China emerged victorious and won exclusive administrative control of Aksai Chin.
“There is a perceptional difference along the Sino-Indian border. China says the border is here. We say no, the border is here. We have been trying to resolve the border problem. China should come forward. India wants a peaceful resolution of all disputes,” Singh said, shortly after presiding over the inauguration of a battalion camp for the Indo-Tibetan Border Police. Singh additionally clarified that India had no territorial ambitions and that he was looking forward to China and India resolving their “perceptional differences” over their shared border.
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