China’s Use of Ambiguity on the LAC as Strategic Pressure
The interview highlights how China has deliberately used ambiguity over the Line of Actual Control (LAC) and the unsettled India–China boundary as a long-term pressure tactic against India. The roots of the problem lie in historical disputes, particularly China’s rejection of the McMahon Line, despite its negotiation at the 1913–14 Simla Conference between British India and Tibet. The LAC itself emerged not as a mutually agreed boundary but as a post-1962 conflict reality, first articulated by Zhou Enlai in 1959 and later imposed through military outcomes.
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