Hence, one would like to submit that, to counter the Chinese claim, and its highly objectionable warning to India on the "border", and its nasty tricks at the UN, India should show (and publicise) the original 1947 map of J&K. The entire issue regarding the delimitation of the Sino-Indian border/frontier is bogged down. Neither Pakistan nor China need try make this an issue.Understandably, both Pakistan’s and China’s common interest in J&K originates from the "enemy’s enemy" theory. Articles 2, 3 and 4 of the Constitution are the lawmaking powers of the Indian Parliament.. No Line of Actual Control was violated. No border was crossed. It would be advisable for China to keep off Kashmir.. The views expressed here are personal.It’s not clear what exactly was "not acceptable" to China. Let Pakistan and China look into their own countless internal faultlines. The MacCartney-McDonald Line; the Johnson-Ardagh line and the Foreign Office Line 1873. Whether the law passed by Parliament is right or wrong, ethical or unethical, applicable or inapplicable, it’s none of China’s concern, being an internal matter of India and its citizens.The UN Security Council’s informal session on Kashmir on Friday last was both good and bad news for India.The writer, an alumnus of the National Defence College, is author of China in India.Fast forward to November 1846. Kashmir is a full-fledged princely state in India under Gulab Singh, whose successors were Ranbir (1856-1885); Pratap (1885-1925) and nephew Hari Singh (1925-1947), who legally signed the "Instrument of Accession of J&K state" — on Sunday, October 26, 1947 — with India.
The newfound interest in Kashmir by US President Donald Trump is a calculated gallery show meant to impress. How then should China react? On the Sino-Indian border delimitation? Is Tibet a part of India or Ladakh a part of China?We know there are three overlapping zigzag "lines" on the Sino-Indian border in J&K/Tibet.. Else, it would amount to building useless and pointless Sino-Pakistani castles in the air. What does the accession document reveal? Hari Singh "Jammu Kashmir Naresh tatha Tibbet. as Parliament may deem necessary.Article 3: "Parliament may, by law (a) form a new state by separation of territory from any state or by uniting two or more states or parts of states or by uniting any territory to a part of any state; (b) increase the area of any state; (c) diminish the area of any state; (d) alter the boundaries of any state; (e) alter the name of any state. Subsequently, Ranjit Singh named Gulab Singh, governor of Kashmir in 1822, who in turn sent his general, Zorawar Singh, to conquer Tibet’s Kailash-Mansarovar axis. The Indian Constitution? The executive Wholesale Recycled Fabrics or the legislature? The handwriting or the signature of the President of India? Hua Chunying, of the Chinese foreign ministry, vaguely referred to "the boundary question", thereby implying the Sino-Indian border in eastern J&K (now the Union territory of Ladakh).