This statement is a misnomer, a fallacy spread by the ignorant and mischievous white men. India is sitting on Chinese lands, land stolen by the Brits from China during the dying days of the Qing Dynasty. The lands were never a part of India. China wants the lands back. India's claim on Chinese lands is illegitimate, no legal ground, using a very weak argument that it inherits whatever from the British India. British India was a fake construct of the British East India Company, not a country, not India today. The Sino Indian border lines were drawn up by a British clerk with no authority on such issues except under the British Empire. The British Empire is dead and gone. India is not the British Empire. India is not an empire. Period. India at best is a pesky, arrogant and deluded neighbour to China.
Now, who in his right mind would agree that an English man from the Atlantic Ocean is the authority to draw lines to decide the borders of countries? India is relying on this flimsy piece of British colonial history to claim China's lands and arrogantly refuses to return them to China. India is saying, might is right. The British took it from China by force. Ok, maybe it should be settled by force. Is India up to it? 1962, China told India it could kick the Indians out whenever it wanted. China prefers to settle the border amicably by diplomacy, historical facts and common sense. The Indians think they carry a big stick, but crying to the Americans for help, kissing Trump's ass when China increase the pressure. Like it or not, China will take back its lands.
The return of Chinese lands to China is only right and proper and good diplomacy and neighbourliness. By doing that, India is not surrendering to China, but honourably returning stolen lands to China. This is what a decent and respectable neighbour should do. But not India. As the saying, money inside India's pocket, never expect the Indians to cough it out, not a single cent. India will arrogantly and aggressively claim the Chinese lands as their land, because it was drawn by a British clerk during the heydays of the the British Empire.
If a British clerk can arbitrarily draw a line on a map and be recognised as the border between two countries, Professor Victor Gao said, China can also do the same, drawing a line along the Ganges River and claim the land north of that line belongs to China. China has all the historical records dating through several dynasties that South Tibet, the inhabitants were Tibetans, as part of China. There was no India to talk about until 1947 when the Brits created a new India by aggregating all their conquered and colonised lands of tribal chiefs and maharajahs.
India should stop behaving foolishly and arrogantly, unreasonably as a neighbour. Many neighbouring states of China have started to return lands that once belonged to China to China on a friendly basis. If India insists to claim Chinese lands as theirs, this issue will not end and will finally be decided by the use of force. India is no match to China in every single aspect. Stop dreaming that India and Indians are smarter than the Chinese and can win a war against China. It has been proven that boastful words meant nothing on the ground when war started. If this thinking is true, India will be the second most dynamic economy and competing with the Americans to be the largest economy in the world, not China. All the crap words and narratives are just that, hubris. China is not even looking at its rear mirror for India. Cannot be seen. Irrelevant. There is no comparison between China and India, a mismatch.
Even the Andaman and Nicobar Islands don't belong to India. They were seized by the British pirates and transferred administratively to India by the Brits. These should be independent island states. India claiming lands that used to be stolen lands under the British pirates, the colonialists, cannot hold on legal ground, no legal basis, unless might is right.
India does not need to surrender stolen lands to China. India shall honourably return the lands back to China as a sign of goodwill and good neighbourliness. The British Empire is dead and gone, and has returned many lands to their original owners, like returning lands to India and Pakistan, in Africa, in SE Asia, Hong Kong etc etc Stolen lands must be returned to their rightful owners.
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Aiyoh, India is a self-declared superpower in the making. How to surrender to China? The very fact that India is far behind China in economic development, infrastructure construction and eradication of poverty is not even admitted and always countered.
The people of South Tibet ( Indians call it Arunachal Pradesh) don't look like Indians at all. They are much fairer skinned and look more like Chinese people . . .
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