The dispute between India and China over Arunachal Pradesh, currently in India, and the Aksai Chin plateau, currently in China, is real. In 2020, it led to their first fatal confrontation since 1975.
But that lot holed up in Taiwan does not claim jurisdiction only over China as it now exists, although it does claim all of that, including Tibet and Xinjiang, each of which contains part of Aksai Chin.
Rejecting the authority of the present Chinese Government to resolve territorial disputes, it also lays claim to all of Mongolia, as well as to parts of Russia, Tajikistan, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Bhutan and Myanmar, together with Arunachal Pradesh.
Exactly. Taiwan doesn't claim independence, it claims the whole of China (including Tibet and Xinjiang) and then some.
ReplyDeleteNo one, including the United States, would give it any assistance if it tried to press those claims, any more than if it ever did try and declare independence. Any President of the United States would find any excuse, up to and including, "I'm just not going to do it."
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