Comments by "alex smith" (@alexsmith-ob3lu) on "How Geography is Pushing India u0026 China to War" video.
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Those lands belong to neither India nor China. Lands such as Aksai Chin have always belonged to Tibet, but Tibet is being carved up by both India and China for economic reasons.
Also, lets not forget history in these liberal times of short sightedness. During the century of humiliation, India grew all of the opium poppies for the Dutch East Indian Company that were sent to China. For many decades, India also sent many soldiers and police units to garrison Chinese cities such as Shanghai, Hong Kong and Tianjin. China has never stationed troops in India cities and has never exported opium to India. So the tensions go back a lot further than just the 1960s...
The same thing can be said with the island disputes. Nobody ever cared about such "islands" (coral reefs) except when there are vast oil deposits there. Now suddenly you have all these countries claiming coral reefs for, once again, economic wealth that were left behind by "Whites in retreat." You may as well carve up the entire United States into colonial lands of India, Mexico, China, etc. because you have so and so living here and there, Lol.
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