Xi on path to conflict with Modi

The highways are the roads to their joint border in the Himalayas which Beijing built to get its military equipment closer to the disputed ‘Line of Actual Control’ (LAC).

Xi’s way was Monday’s unveiling of his country standard national map: 2023 edition. It shows the Indian state of Arunachal Pradesh and all of the disputed Aksai Chin plateau as being inside China’s borders. Xi wants Modi to eventually agree with this depiction and Beijing told New Delhi to “stay calm” in its reaction to the map.

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