This has already occurred on the nearby India-Pakistan border after the Kargil conflict of 1999 led to the perennial occupation of Siachen Glacier. Perception and Evolution in the Making of China and India as Great Powers. It is also ultimately pointless. Rien ne va plus entre l’Inde et la Chine. By far the most commonly asked question asked by IR scholars when looking at the Himalaya is whether or not China, India and Pakistan will go to war with one another (Malone and Mukherjee, 2010; Raghavan, 2019; Karackattu, 2013; Joshi, 2011). Amidst this backdrop of competition, Himalayan cultures and languages are being transformed. Decolonization only brought with it further confusion and antipathy, particularly after Pakistan split with India in the wake of independence. [2] The region, though, is far more than disputed lines on a map and the resultant military posturing. Aksai Chin is part of greater Kashmir, and after the bloody war between Pakistan and India in 1947 resulted in the partition of that region, the border between China and India was left ill-defined. For all the concerns over potential troop movements on both sides, any conflict in the area would be exceptionally difficult. al.,2020). Conflit frontalier dans l’Himalaya: face à la puissance militaire chinoise, l’Inde se tourne vers l’Occident. The Himalaya is one of many examples around the world of linguistic diversity rising with the terrain (Axelsen and Manrubia, 2014). This takes place against a backdrop of climate change and slowly melting ice, which is only accelerated by the geopolitical contest. They found newly built Chinese roads and bridges. E-IR is an independent non-profit publisher run by an all volunteer team. This would be a major help if India were to further reinforce its position or build out army installations on the border. Bordering regions at this altitude and along the watershed, however, was extremely imprecise (Gardner, 2019, 2020). One road, the Rohtang tunnel connecting Manali to Leh, has taken four decades but is expected to be completed this year (Dhillon and Chhina, 2020). The uncertainty over these borders is genuine. The location of the latest confrontation, the Galwan Valley, is a relatively low plateau, where troops can move more easily. IR’s record on the contest to date though is largely focused on Delhi and Beijing, and not the mountains. The Line of Actual Control, the loosely-defined, de facto border, emerged out of the Sino-Indian border war of 1962, which itself was sparked by longstanding historical territorial disagreements. [1] The tensions have been the worst the region has seen for several decades, with reports of ‘warning shots’ being fired in September 2020 (BBC, 2020). None of these languages receives support or recognition from the PRC. For a contemporary visual guide, see O’Donnell and Bollfrass, 2020. On the one-year anniversary of India’s reorganization of Kashmir, China reiterates its opposition. Après l'annexion du Tibet en 1951, la Chine a repoussé sa frontière sud-ouest au détriment de l'Inde. Already, thousands of soldiers (Gao, 2016) have died in the Himalaya, not from fighting, but the extreme environmental conditions. "Nearly 15% of soldiers in the rushed units developed high altitude pulmonary edema, a leading cause of altitude-related fatalities, that can progress from initial symptoms to death in as few as 12 hours for even healthy individuals.". Aksai Chin, la zone litigieuse est revendiquée comme faisant partie du Xinjiang par la Chine et du Ladakh par l’Inde. With the two armies nursing their wounds and resuming deescalation protocols, attention will now turn to leaders in Delhi and Beijing and whether they can avoid the current spat spiraling out of control into a difficult and costly conflict. Accrochage militaire dans l'Himalaya : l'Inde sous le choc, la Chine espère un apaisement 1K partages Publié le : 17/06/2020 - 10:59 Modifié le : 17/06/2020 - 13:29 The Indians lost, and the de facto border is now known as the “line of actual control”. The basis of claiming territory for these new states, then, was the culture, religion and ethnicity of local people. And yet, the mountains in Ladakh, the site of the current standoff, were not well surveyed before they became part of India, China and Pakistan. One rare exception to this is LHM Ling et al.’s (2017) collection India China, which emphasises that India and China are ‘civilisational twins,’ with various shared Himalayan inheritances. Many thanks! Il fait froid et inhospitalier, drapé de neige avec des températures autour de zéro, même en été. Après une série d'affrontements à leur frontière, la Chine et l'Inde sont convenues, autour d'une déclaration commune vendredi, d'« apaiser les tensions » dans l'Himalaya. L’Inde et la Chine cherchent une issue à leurs tensions militaires dans l'Himalaya Publié le : 07/06/2020 - 07:54 Le lac Pangong qui sépare l'Inde et la Chine. The 2020 China–India skirmishes are part of an ongoing military standoff between China and India.Since 5 May 2020, Chinese and Indian troops have engaged in aggressive melee, face-offs and skirmishes at locations along the Sino-Indian border, including near the disputed Pangong Lake in Ladakh and the Tibet Autonomous Region, and near the border between Sikkim and the Tibet Autonomous Region. Himalayan geopolitics take place on shifting mountains, inhabited by minoritised peoples, many of whom speak endangered languages, whose postcolonial states behave like colonial governors as they fight over the borders drawn by their imperial forebears. For much of the 1800s, the Himalayas was a focus of the military and political rivalry between the three empires of Russia, Britain and China, with all three claiming various parts of the region. In Bhutan, for example, there are twenty one indigenous languages recognised by the state, in a country of just one million people (Roche and Gawne, 2018). The Indian army initially confirmed three casualties, but later said an additional 17 soldiers "exposed to sub-zero temperatures in the high altitude terrain have succumbed to their injuries.". The Himalayan environment will ultimately have the final say in this situation, as its ecology cannot sustain intense militarisation, climate change, and hydropower extraction over the long term. This process produces sand and silt, which makes the rivers particularly fertile, enabling the population density we see today in the South, South East and East Asia (Gamble, 2019a). The incident began in June 2017 when Chinese troops and bulldozers moved onto the Doklam Plateau to build an all-weather road. The Indian Ocean holds a particular place in the India-China strategic relationship. And yet, as I seek to demonstrate here,  while this element of the story is indispensable, focusing solely on the movement of soldiers, and the construction of military infrastructure neglects the local effects of these developments, how the environment had constructed and continues to influence the state-level tensions, and how being territorialised by states has transformed the region. As we will see below, the Himalaya are geologically young, and this feeds both the geopolitical and geological instability. It is the result of political and social structures that discourage linguistic diversity. They are geopolitical. Its ice caps are the source of most of Asia’s large rivers,  and play a key role in moderating the global climate. "Earlier it mainly used to be on the Chinese side (that built infrastructure) but now India has been ramping up infrastructure along its side of the border as well," added Pant. Cette guerre frontalière dure depuis 1962. Within the British colonial ‘science’ of border-making (Goettlich, 2018), rivers, ice-caps and watersheds were seen as ideal borders. During the colonial period, the Himalaya was governed as a patchwork of small polities and princely states, which were influenced by nearby, plains-based empires, without being ruled directly (Gamble, 2019a). There are some hopeful developments here, however. Un bref conflit a opposé en 1962 l'Inde et la Chine, qui se disputent une bonne part de la zone frontalière, dans l'Himalaya occidental. Rather, China lumps all of these languages together under the label ‘Tibetan’ and allows only education in this one standardised language. If we try to analyse the region without taking into account the three key, interrelated factors of geopolitical tension, environmental destruction and cultural transformation, then we distort the reality the Himalaya’s difficulties. Despite this, IR’s analysis of the region prioritises the interests of its states, rarely looking beyond the question of whether conflict or cooperation is likely (Davis et. [2] For an historical overview, see Guyot-Réchard, 2016. After the war, the Indian army reached the border near Tawang, a town in the Eastern Himalaya that had been occupied for a month. "Soldiers take days to acclimatize to any altitude above 2,400 meters (slightly higher than Santa Fe, New Mexico), so the rate at which reinforcements arrive may be slower than the speed of their means of transport. bandwidth bills to ensure we keep our existing titles free to view. Des troupes chinoises auraient franchi la ‘ligne de contrôle’ assez floue qui fait office de frontière entre l’Inde et la Chine dans l’Himalaya. The Himalaya is literally Asia rising. World War II-era landing strips and airfields across the full length of the India-China border were also refurbished. Folding the study of culture, history and ecology into IR’s frameworks, however, can add a great deal to our understanding of the international nature of this region. The newly formed People’s Republic of China annexed Tibet in 1949 and disputed India’s territorial claims in the Eastern and Western Himalaya. asie Conflit entre l'Inde et la Chine dans l'Himalaya : six questions pour tout comprendre Des soldats des deux puissances asiatiques se sont affrontés à coups de barres de fer et à mains nues. "The status quo is actually tolerable to both countries -- or at least, their distaste for the status quo is not so much that they will pay the cost of fixing it," he added. India based its claims on more generous readings of British cartography. The proximate cause of the recent fighting seems to have been infrastructure building on both sides. China and India's latest border dispute may have mainly involved scuffles and troop maneuvers on the ground, but it has been all-out war in the respective countries' media. Environmental destruction feeds more geopolitical tensions, as the state thinks it needs to get its hands on more water and hydropower resources. Conflit frontalier dans l’Himalaya: face à la puissance militaire chinoise, l’Inde se tourne vers l’Occident This loss of languages is tragic. Until now, infrastructure development has been slow. by Kevin Brown The People’s Republic of China and the Republic of India engaged in … World War II-era landing strips and airfields across the full length of the India-China border were also refurbished. [1] Indian press reports suggested that 43 Chinese soldiers were killed, but this figure has not been confirmed by the Chinese side. al, 2017) has suggested interdisciplinary engagements with environmental sciences. Everything suffers at this altitude. He tweets at @DrAlexEDavis, All content on the website is published under the following Creative Commons License, Copyright © — E-International Relations. L’Inde, déjà absorbée par les conflits contre le Pakistan concernant le Le récent affrontement entre la Chine et l'Inde n'est pas sans précédents. After the 1959 Tibetan uprising, when India offered refuge to the Dalai Lama, there was a string of violent border skirmishes between the two countries. There is a dangerous parallel in history to the current India-China conflict in Ladakh. IR’s state as actor mode, though, still leads us to neglect the borderland peoples’ experiences of the conflict and misses the constitutive role that the dramatic Himalayan environment has played in producing the conflict. Conditions during winter -- bitterly cold with heavy snow -- can make much of the area inaccessible, however, meaning the window for maneuvers is very slim. The Himalaya has rightly drawn global attention for the last few months, as India and China continue a troop build-up in Ladakh, particularly at Pangong Tso, Chushul and the Galwan Valley (Hutcheon et. Diesel engines struggle to operate, helicopters have to cut their loads, and the amount of supplies required to keep troops healthy is far higher. Being boxed into states and folded into national identities has threatened the diversity in the Himalaya because languages are not neatly patterned to borders (Roche and Gawne, 2018). "Since then there have been worries in China that India would make life difficult for China going forward," said Pant. amount, in any currency, is appreciated. This created an uneasy status quo which persists today, where neither side quite agrees on the border, both regularly accuse the other of overstepping it or seeking to expand their territory, and excuse for conflict is easy to come by. These cultures and environments are slowly being transformed by the geopolitical precarity. Even during summer, when conditions are better, the altitude, weather and temperatures make everything more difficult, from simple maneuvers and supply runs, let alone a full blown military conflict. With no ability to stop them, Bhutan appealed to India for assistance. 1988-99, les mouvements indépendantistes se renforcent et les deux états deviennent puissances nucléaires. China’s construction of dams on Himalayan rivers has also worried India about shared water resources (Gamble, 2019b). Aksai Chin, the area in contention, is claimed as part of Xinjiang by China and Ladakh by India. Hit-and-run tactics in which Indian troops lurk in the Himalaya mountains, and then swooping down to … Why are China and India fighting over an inhospitable strip of the Himalayas? All of the Himalaya’s states are concerned about access to water resources and electricity generation. In June of 2020, fighting between Chinese and Indian soldiers over disputed western Himalayan borders left 20 Indian soldiers dead, 20 seriously injured, and a still unconfirmed number of fatalities on the Chinese side (Dwivedi, 2020). Face à l’Inde, la Chine accroît sa pression militaire sur l’Himalaya. "(The region) connects China to Pakistan, where they have the economic corridor. The purpose of this road is to support troops along the border, allowing them to be resupplied by road from Daulat Beg Oldi, the world's highest airfield. Donations are voluntary and not required to download the e-book - your link to download is below. It is home to enormous cultural diversity, including hundreds of threatened languages. "While India recognized the so-called 'McMahon line,'" a holdover of the British colonial era, analyst Larry Wortzel writes in a US military report, "China never formally accepted it, opting instead for the 'borders of habit' that had existed between adjoining peoples for decades previous.". To do this, though, requires genuine interdisciplinary engagement (Davis et. Au plein cœur de l’Himalaya, à 4.000 mètres d’altitude et le long de leurs 3.300km de frontière commune, la Chine et l’Inde. Like us on Facebook to see similar stories, Casey Goodson shooting is renewing calls for change in a city fighting deeply rooted racism, Federal Judge in Arizona Dismisses Third Limb of Sidney Powell’s Post-Election ‘Kraken,’ Which Was ‘Sorely Wanting of Relevant or Reliable Evidence’. India and China, then, pushed forward to create a border. It is unclear if or how many Chinese soldiers died. Show full articles without "Continue Reading" button for {0} hours. "Even if altitude were not a factor, the terrain along the India-China border would still complicate military operations," Milliff said. ", The risks of ascending too quickly can be potentially dire, even for healthy young soldiers, including pulmonary and cerebral edemas. As we ask this question, we often lose sight of the Himalaya’s environmental and cultural diversity, and a crucial international issue receives scant attention. CHINA and India continue to lock horns and the latest battle looks set to take place on a river with both nations looking to build dams. It is also contributing directly to India-China tensions. After the 1959 Tibetan uprising, when India offered refuge to the Dalai Lama, there was a string of violent border skirmishes between the two countries. Last year, India finished a new all-weather road that runs very close to the Line of Actual Control (LAC). Any The violence in the Galwan river valley in June 2020, and the ongoing military confrontation in the Himalayas over the past six months, bears striking resemblance to a watershed moment in world history known as the Seven Years War. The anxiety produces further infrastructure building. support open access publishing. Sometimes, the changes are less subtle. The possibility of a war over borders between some of the world’s most populous states will always draw our attention. India was sympathetic to Russia, which added to existing tensions, and a brief (and literal) cold war between India and China broke out in 1962. The loss of languages also brings with it the loss of local ecological knowledge, which facilitates environmental destruction. Microsoft may earn an Affiliate Commission if you purchase something through recommended links in this article. Hormis la guerre Inde-Chine de 1962, l'Inde n'a pas perdu un seul conflit militaire. This is accelerated by the increase in connectivity and the opening up of the region to the global economy. Chinese engineers, however, appear to have mastered building roads and high-speed rail networks across Western Tibet (Bhutia, 2016). L'Inde peut résister à une agression militaire chinoise, mais si le monde libre souhaite le rester, il aurait intérêt à demeurer proche de la plus grande démocratie du monde. But the river slowly shifted course, and the village of Susta found itself subjected to an international border dispute (Jamwal, 2017). Un conflit de frontière débuté en 1962 entre les deux géants asiatiques. Nepal and Bhutan were able to maintain their independence but have since had to manage difficult relationships between two sprawling plains-based states. India claims the region as part of Ladakh, a remote, mountainous territory in the eastern Kashmir valley which was until last year part of the Indian-controlled but semi-autonomous state of Jammu and Kashmir, the part of the wider disputed region that ended up in Indian control following the 1947 war with Pakistan. Face à l’Inde, la Chine accroît sa pression militaire sur l’Himalaya. A seven-month standoff between India and China over the Himalayan Ladakh region looks like it will drag on into winter. "Operating above 4,000 meters, as both the Indian Army and the PLA are well aware, changes nearly every aspect of warfare," Milliff, the MIT expert, wrote in War on the Rocks earlier this month. We often talk about the ‘rise of Asia,’ or of India and China. The history of the militarisation of the Himalaya, and the strategy behind it, is relatively well understood, if not adequately critiqued, within IR scholarship. Inde-Chine : des pays dotés de la bombe nucléaire se sont déjà fait la guerre. Les deux géants asiatiques qui partagent 3 500 kilomètres de frontières dans l’Himalaya sont engagés dans une escalade commerciale et militaire. After over four decades of saber-rattling and minor scuffles, a border dispute between China and India has again turned fatal. Au cœur des massifs de l’Himalaya, l’Inde et la Chine partagent plus de 2 000 km de frontières communes. The last major crisis in the region, a months-long standoff over the disputed territory of Doklam in 2017, was also related to infrastructure building. India Can Defeat China in a War By Following Beijing's Korean War Strategy. All Rights Reserved | Site by Rootsy. The two nuclear-armed neighbors are now attempting a rapid deescalation of tensions, even as some jingoistic and hawkish voices in both countries are demanding greater defiance and aggression. It rises each year by about five centimetres, as the Indian continental plate crashes into the Eurasian plate, as it has done for the past fifty million years. The borders in this region move as ice caps and rivers rise and recede with the seasons. But it does not just happen by accident. This, though, comes with enormous risks in a geologically unstable region. modifier La guerre sino-indienne est un conflit ayant opposé la Chine et l' Inde en 1962 , pour le contrôle de territoires himalayens . What Can a Japan-US-India-Australia Cooperation Do. Mais pour les pays qui se partagent la région, cette barrière de 2400 km entre le sous-continent indien , le Tibet chinois et l'Asie centrale est aussi un enjeu stratégique capital. It is cold and inhospitable, draped in snow with temperatures around freezing, even in summer. Dans la région du Ladakh, le long d’une ancienne ligne de cessez- le-feu entre la Chine et l’Inde, les soldats prennent leurs positions pour l’hiver, dans des conditions extrêmes. India-China Himalaya conflict: Also known as the Indo-China War and the Sino-Indian Border Dispute. L'Inde et la Chine ont déployé leurs forces militaires sur leur frontière commune, dans l'Himalaya. Infrastructure technologies have improved substantially, and this is contributing to the cultural transformation of the region. Indeed, I argue that the India, China and Pakistan tensions, and the mountains on which they take place, and the people who live next to them, are so poorly accounted for by mainstream IR theorising that it should call these frameworks into question in the first place. "The Himalayan Plateau is not flat like the central front in Europe, nor necessarily tank-drivable like the deserts in Iraq or along the border between western India and southern Pakistan.". This was perhaps intended to impress the local population, as India had largely struggled to build such roads (Guyot-Réchard, 2016: 238). Elles sont dessinées au cours du 19 e siècle sous la pression des Britanniques qui ont fait de l’Inde, le joyau de leur Empire mondial. This one did not; it transpired on land claimed by a third country, Bhutan. Meanwhile, political geography (Gergan, 2020; Smith, 2013; McDuie-Ra and Chettri, 2019) and political ecology (Drew, 2017) have produced outstanding scholarship on the Himalaya which draws in the international context. Beneath the geopolitical clash between India and China, the people of Ladakh live with the weight of an economic collapse and worries about war. So why is the area so important to both sides? These issues are all fundamentally international. Retour sur les enjeux géopolitiques de … The Himalaya has rightly drawn global attention for the last few months, as India and China continue a troop build-up in Ladakh, particularly at Pangong Tso, Chushul and the Galwan Valley (Hutcheon et. Si les échauffourées n’y sont pas rares, les récents événements semblent indiquer une nouvelle dynamique dans ce conflit larvé qui dure depuis 1962. « Face à l’Inde, la Chine accroît sa pression militaire sur l’Himalaya » RÉCIT – Dans son conflit avec l’Inde sur le toit du monde , Pékin a pour objectif de s’assurer le contrôle exclusif de la région rétive du Xinjiang, et de contrôler la réincarnation du dalaï-lama. IR’s statist frameworks fail to comprehend the complexity of the Himalaya. Before you download your free e-book, please consider donating to Who Would Be Favored in a China-India Conflict in the Himalayas? It was also the location of the dispute which kicked off the 1962 war. And yet, IR’s failure to go beyond this part of the story ultimately facilitates a likely catastrophic ending. For sparsely populated ice caps, and even the diverse Himalayan foothills, this was not a helpful organising principle. "During the 1962 Sino-Indian border war, some Indian units skipped acclimatization and proceeded directly to extreme altitudes in Kashmir and Sikkim," Milliff writes. Trying to read into India's China war, I think that most of these border issues are pending since British India agreements of Borders on its North East Border with China. The year-long militarisation of high-altitude regions is an extremely undesirable result not just for the environment, but also for the soldiers. L’Inde et la Chine s’affrontent à leur frontière dans l’Himalaya… et l’appli TikTok fait figure de dommage collatéral. a border dispute between China and India has again turned fatal, part of the Indian-controlled but semi-autonomous state of Jammu and Kashmir, months-long standoff over the disputed territory of Doklam in 2017, wrote in War on the Rocks earlier this month. La tension est à son comble entre l’Inde et la Chine. La tension est à son comble entre l’Inde et la Chine. This might speak to future challenges elsewhere as well. With decolonisation, Himalayan peoples experienced an increase of external authority over their lives, while much of the world found greater autonomy (Guyot-Réchard, 2016). India’s Incremental Balancing in the South China Sea, Reflecting on India’s Nuclear Suppliers Group Bid, The ‘China Factor’ in India’s Maritime Engagement with Southeast Asia. Building roads close to the border facilitates troop deployment, which provokes fear on the other side. China based its territorial claims on a sense of Tibetan ethnicity. Alexander Davis is a Lecturer in International Relations at the University of Western Australia, his research focuses on history, identity and international politics in South Asia from a postcolonial perspective. India fought an ill-fated war with China the previous year that permanently damaged the idea of Sino-Indian brotherhood, and Pakistan saw an opportunity to … The details of the encounter remain confused, however, and may never be fully clear. And yet, India and China went to war over it in 1962, ... For much of the 1800s, the Himalayas was a focus of the military and political rivalry between the … The 1962 India-China was partly sparked by China building a road across Aksai Chin on Indian-claimed territory. For its part, China had already moved large numbers of troops and armaments to the region, while India has also reportedly reinforced its position, though New Delhi has been less vocal about its military strength there. A Chinese disputed Himalayan border was the main cause of the war. Chine, Inde, Pakistan, les frontières de l’Himalaya octobre 9, 2019 2020-09-21 15:19. "Some signs suggest China's recent advances are a response to the new road, which they perceive as a change in the status quo at the LAC," said Aidan Milliff, an expert on political violence and South Asia at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Landslides and asphyxiation are common, particularly at year-round occupied high-altitude sites such as the India-Pakistan stand-off at Siachen Glacier. As we will see below, if we take into account the environmental and cultural costs of the project, the instinct to border these regions in the first place lies very much at the heart of the problem. This makes environmentally sound governance, which looks after the health of the watershed, nearly impossible. L'Himalaya, zone de frictions entre la Chine et l'Inde L' Himalaya fait rêver les amateurs de sensations fortes avec ses sommets avoisinant les 8 000 mètres. Read More: China Wants to Build a Tibet With More Wealth and Less Buddhism At least 20 Indian soldiers were killed in a bloody brawl with Chinese troops on Monday in the Galwan Valley, close to Aksai Chin, an area controlled by China but claimed by both countries. This takes place alongside the global dominance of English as a language of business, a key element of this linguistic hierarchy. Après avoir annoncé la mort de trois de ses soldats dans des corps à corps avec l’armée populaire de Chine au Ladakh, lundi 15 juin, l’armée indienne a fait savoir, dans la nuit du mardi 16 au mercredi 17 juin, que ses pertes étaient en réalité beaucoup plus importantes. And so, thinking through the Himalaya should break IR open, and flood the discipline with knowledge from other sources that highlight the interconnection between environmental, political, and cultural transformations. The success of state-backed languages such as Hindi, Dzongkha and Putonghua places further stress on Himalayan languages. Amelie Huber (2019) has argued that these dams place the costs of development on local populations. As Maxwell writes in his book "India's China War," sovereignty over the Aksai Chin region has always been somewhat confused.

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