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The Karakoram Mountains formed a natural boundary, which would set the British borders up to the Indus River watershed while leaving the Tarim River watershed in Chinese control, and Chinese control of this tract would present a further obstacle to Russian advance in Central Asia. [18]
This former dispute over a small island never more than two meters above sea level was contested from the island's appearance in the 1970s to its disappearance, likely due to climate change, [159] in the first decade of the 2000s. Though land disputes no longer exist, the maritime boundary was not settled until 2014.
Tri-state water dispute - is a water use conflict between the states of Georgia, Alabama, and Florida over the Apalachicola-Chattahoochee-Flint River Basin and the Alabama-Coosa-Tallapoosa River Basin; Kaveri River water dispute - A Water Conflict between the Indian states Karnataka and Tamil Nadu for Kaveri river which flows through the ...
Boundary of Kashmir in the 1888 Survey of India map of India. The undefined boundary shown in dash line from Malubiting, Raskam, Aktagh to Karakunlun Shan Detailed map showing part of the Trans-Karakoram Tract near the Shaksgam River (United States Army Map Service, 1953) The Shaksgam Valley (Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region) photographed in August
Sino-Soviet border conflict Soviet Union v. China: Zhenbao Island Ussuri River: 72-800 1971: 1971: Indo-Pakistani War of 1971 Pakistan v. India: Kashmir East Pakistan ~4,000+ 1978: 1979: Uganda–Tanzania War Uganda v. Tanzania: Kagera Salient ~4,500 1979: 1979: Sino-Vietnamese War China v. Vietnam: Cao Bằng Lạng Sơn Spratly Islands ...
An article in the Minneapolis Star Tribune stated: "Their combat over a barren, uninhabited world of questionable value is a forbidding symbol of their lingering, irreconcilability." [61] Stephen P. Cohen compared the conflict to "a struggle between two bald men over a comb. Siachen is a symbol of the worst aspects of their relationship."
China and the United States appear to be restarting dialogue between their militaries, despite continuing disputes over Beijing’s claims to Taiwan and the South China Sea. The U.S. confirmed on ...
The modern border dates from the period of the British Raj when Britain controlled India, which then included what is now Pakistan. In 1899, the British, via its envoy to China Sir Claude MacDonald, proposed what became known as the MacDonald Line to the Chinese government, however the Chinese never responded to the proposal and thus this border was never formalised.