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The contentious issues between China and India are as explained below: relations with China experience friendly gestures from India as India signed popular ‘Panchsheel’ to develop Indo-China relations in l954 and advocated China’s membership to the United Nations. Still, after 1957, various contentious issues arose in Indo-China relations:
- Border conflict of 1962 over competing for territorial claims principally in Arunachal Pradesh and Aksai Chin region of Ladakh.
- Differences originated from the Chinese takeover of Tibet in l950, and the final settlement of the Sino- Indian border.
- After Panchsheel, attack by China on India in 1962, to occupy larger territories of India, created humiliation.
- China’s assistance to Pakistan’s nuclear programme also created differences.
- China’s military relations with Bangladesh and Myanmar were viewed as hostile to Indian interests.
All the above-mentioned differences/ disputes could be resolved for greater cooperation-
- Both the countries should make some more efforts to revive the harmonious attitude between themselves.
- Both the countries should move hand-in-hand to fight against terrorism, nuclear race and economic disparities.
- Both countries should develop understanding and respect.
- Hence, both of them have signed agreements on cultural exchange and cooperation in science and technology.