Several rounds of talks in the last three decades have failed to resolve the boundary disputes and distrust has occasionally led to flare-ups.Īssociate Professor Jian Zhang, a Chinese foreign policy expert from UNSW Canberra, told the ABC the conflict had now reached 'a very serious level'. While no border has ever officially been negotiated along the Himalayan stretch that divides the two nations, the truce established a 3,380 kilometre-long, loosely demarcated line referred to as the Line of Actual Control (LAC). While India and Pakistan have famously clashed over Kashmir many times, China and India also went to war over their disputed border six decades ago, which ended in 1962 with an uneasy truce. Three nuclear-armed countries now govern various parts of the region: India, China and Pakistan.
Ladakh, where the clashes took place, is in the region of Kashmir - an area that has been contested since the partition of the British Indian Empire in 1947.
