China has emerged as new economic power. Whatever methodology it adopted is not the point; the point is that the methodology has succeeded. China is our next door neighbour and its borders touch on ours all over the Himalayas right up to Sikkim. China is one country known for its land greed. Its policy is dovetailed to encroaching on borders and eating into the territories of neighbours. In Siachin area, which is the part of the original State of Jammu and Kashmir, China first grabbed nearly five thousand square kilometres of area from us in J&K. Not satisfied with this, China and Pakistan, having entered into unholy alliance just as enemies and rivals of India, managed to take a large chunk of territory from the part of PoK, named Northern Areas by Pakistan at that time. Now, China has made deep inroads into Gilgit and Baltistan. It has floated billions worth developmental programmes in that area after the Karakorum Highway was built connecting Xinjiang with Pakistani port of Gawadar. This is a new form of imperialism or say economic imperialism. If China honestly recognizes J&K a live dispute, it should never have entered into a bargain with Pakistan to grab part of Siachin. It should not have agreed to invest in Gilgit and Baltistan and even agreed to build the Karakorum Highway which passes through Indian Territory. We strongly reject China’s investments in a region that is not of Pakistan and it is here that India considers it a security threat.
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