Why There Are No Flights Between India and China

[@daftrok]

TL;DW Because mountains and they hate each other.

[@101yayo]

@@chez8219 public toilets count as public areas.

[@101yayo]

They don't actually hate each other. It is a western perspective. Most people don't care.

[@Tompsie]

​​@@101yayono it isn't a "western perspective". People in India can't stand China and hate it, rightfully so. Don't give an ignorant opinion on something you don't know much about. Not everything is muh west bad

[@hamzamahmood9565]

​@@101yayo Were all the border fights between India and China also a Western perspective?

[@ArawnOfAnnwn]

@@chez8219 Nice racism you got there bub.

[@Haligonian]

Framing Brilliant as a helpful tool for India & China to solve their crisis is craazy

[@guilegameche3810]

Well... we'll never know if they don't give it a try!

[@Blex_040]

Transitions to a Brilliant sponsor segment are always pretty far fetched, I even recall some like "If this historical figure only had today's sponsor Brilliant at their disposal, they could have solved their problems" 😂

[@Shubham_Bahirat]

As if 3rd and 4th strongest army in the world don't have experts sitting there

[@Purin95]

Gotta get that money

[@azzevria8034]

Unfortunately, the Brilliant tool can't be that good if it failed to spot historical inaccuracies in this video. For example, at approximately 4.00 minute into this video, the narrator described "...in 1914... Tibet then A DE FACTO INDEPENDENT COUNTRY..." and the Republic of China met with the then British-India, Crown Jewel of the British Empire. This video is littered with historical inaccuracies and revisionism. Below is one example. HISTORICAL FACTS: In 1906 (eight years before 1914), Great Britain and China's Qing Dynasty signed "The Convention Between Great Britain and China Respecting Tibet". In this treaty (aka Treaty of Peking 1906), GB, at the time the largest and most powerful Empire the world has ever known, GB reaffirmed the continuation of Chinese possession of Tibet (that is, GB will not invade and occupy Tibet) - on the proviso that Beijing assures London that China will "not to permit any other foreign state to interfere with the territory or internal administration of Tibet". The 1906 Treaty of Peking is just one example to illustrate Tibet was never "a de facto independent country ". The "foreign state" referred to in this treaty was Russia. In this treaty, London and Beijing agreed to create Tibet as a buffer zone between Russia and British-India. Some years before this 1906 treaty, the 13th Dalai Lama, Thubten Gyatso (1876-1933), under the influence of Agvan Dorzhiev (a Russian subject) became the first Dalai Lama to promote Tibet's independence from China. (Just because Spanish Catalan president Carles Puigdemont declared Catalan independence from Spain in 2017 does not make Barcelona Catalan an independent country.) GB was so concerned with the emerging Russian threat coming from the north of British-India that the British sent a military force (Younghusband Expedition) to harass Lhasa in 1903-04. During the British military invasion, the 13th Dalai Lama, Thubten Gyatso, with the help of Agvan Dorzhiev, fled to Russia-controlled Mongolia. After the fall of the Qing Dynasty in 1912 (China's last dynasty), the Republic of China continued to administer Tibet as a province (state) of modern China. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Convention_Between_Great_Britain_and_China_Respecting_Tibet

[@Seetor]

Guy taking 20 minutes to say "because they are geopolitical rivals with an active border conflict"

[@the0ne809]

but but but muhhh BRICS......

[@avxway]

bro's a yappinator

[@jdalbion]

Same as that "half as interesting" channel, guy is making 5-8 min video, and 80% of video he is talking useless sentences, just to say 2 sentences that are related to the actual video..

[@pacificlion]

Bruh

[@KamBar2020]

Slava TSMC 🇹🇼

[@WChocoleta]

As Chinese, I had the chance to fly non stop from Beijing to Delhi in Feb. 2020, right before the pandemic breakout and the halt of China-India direct flights. The trip to India was the trip of my life, had some marvelous time in the amazing country. Too bad the geopolitical tension is preventing people from both sides to understand and appreciate the other's culture, history and modern progress.

[@satishmaurya3404]

Isn't it China's belligerence the bone of contention not only with India but all the ASEAN nations, also?? In fact, China covets the lands of all its neighbours including Russia.

[@TaeNre]

f'k the geopolitics , we should be brothers

[@eobardthawne6903]

Too bad, we have so much to learn from you guys, and so much to share from our side.

[@deepakthirdreich]

Where in china are you from ?

[@b1uee313]

@@eobardthawne6903 what you gonna learn? how to have a dictatorship? how to make your country's people miserable? how to make your country live in the novel 1984? how to have thought police? how to abuse and violate human rights? how to massacre ppl and make people forget it? how to illegally occupy other countries?

[@turnleft8645]

Imagine the 2 most populated countries in the world, with both having over 1 billion people each, and not a single one can take a flight to the other country, and they're both neighbours 💀

[@kb9880]

there's just no direct flights, mainly because of the himalayas. you can still take flights connecting from Hong Kong, Singapore, Malaysia.

[@Kalinga_3]

Hi I am from India, There's flight to Hong Kong And there are flights to Delhi from China The video is giving false information.

[@urugvajchernamazyj6240]

Thanks to ccp.

[@ArawnOfAnnwn]

You can go one to the other, just not directly. And part of the reason is simply practical - the Himalayas are massive.

[@Ironbanner12]

Having a huge ass mountain range between them probably hurts too

[@Strykenine]

Read the title as 'Why there are no Fights between India and China' and was like, thank God.

[@asrco6485]

Same

[@kevkuehnertskuelerkuehlschrank]

only a couple of friendly fist fights between their militaries

[@ZX235w3]

That's wrong. China and India actually went to war in the mid 1900s. Go search up the Sino-Indian War

[@sage5296]

There can be Flights or Fights, but not both

[@GonzoTehGreat]

Funnily enough, according to the video, there ARE fights, in the form of border skirmishes.

[@srikanthshastry4546]

We don't hate each other! We can never trust each other which is much worse

[@GonzoTehGreat]

China and India are both ancient civilisations. Some of the oldest. Currently, they're geopolitical rivals, but that may change in time. Never say never.

[@srikanthshastry4546]

@@GonzoTehGreat I agree, I and most Indians have a lot of respect for Chinese history and civilization. But we can never China under the Chinese Communist Party

[@GonzoTehGreat]

@@srikanthshastry4546 I assume you mean that relations can't be friendly while China is ruled by the CCP, as evidenced by 2 wars and intermittent border disputes. Nevertheless, never is a long time! The CCP didn't even exist 100 years ago. Who knows what China (or India) will be like 100 years from now.

[@fanfan-vd6tk]

中国和印度应该合作，才能共同繁荣

[@Acteaon]

Id almost say that equates to hate. Anyone?

[@visheshrao5629]

10:17 '"Promising to take their relationships to greater heights" the following year' That we did - Galwan Valley definitely is at a greater height

[@blip808]

bro 😭😭😭

[@Meandbroafter2]

The prospect of war is so scary that we just decided to go medieval.

[@nsebast]

USA: Noob!

[@Meandbroafter2]

@@nsebast No one will nuke USA.. they're geographically isolated too... Meanwhile in this case China will destroy its trade and factories and India will lose the war Nukes are not out of the picture so I'll say yes it is more scary than any US war in the past

[@xyz-je2wx]

Is honouring treaties mediaeval ?

[@Meandbroafter2]

@Channel-y5y care to elaborate "your knowledge "

[@Meandbroafter2]

@Channel-y5y 🤦‍♂️and what did I say

[@confused.cat.]

Both India and china have such a rich culture and history. Too bad geopolitics prevents either of their citizens to experience the other nations lifestyle

[@MarkMuhammad190]

Yeah, shouldn’t have invaded India when your relationship was at its best.

[@braunarsch]

@@MarkMuhammad190 how do you know the cat is chinese?

[@Lite11-]

​@@braunarsch they don't, cats don't survive in China.

[@warpdrive9229]

@@MarkMuhammad190 Why do you muslims always support China over India, when China is the best place for muslims and India has zero muslims left after Partition.

[@warpdrive9229]

@@realqualia7175 India and China have been civilizational states long before they were nation states. Indian and Chinese civilizations are the oldest in the world.

[@shabkumar2879]

10:27 stock footage of Bangkok, Thailand for no reason

[@AmazingAmigo]

All the same

[@95TurboSol]

@@AmazingAmigo racist lol

[@valencianball9129]

13:20 this one is from Moscow Sheremetyevo Airport

[@paloma_reloaded]

these kind of videos are chaff, made with chatgpt. You think the editor would take time to even look at the letters to verify it looks at liest like chinese?

[@endi4654]

​@@valencianball9129 but at least there's a Chinese carrier, so it's valid

[@milkbaologist5610]

Comment section: Chinese nationalism vs Indian Nationalism

[@ArawnOfAnnwn]

Not really. This is mostly a western channel, so most of the comments seem to be from westerners. Yeah there's a few from the countries in question, but Polymatters' viewership likely isn't really high from either. I expect the largest contingent is American.

[@Shubham_Bahirat]

Tbh i really don't have any hate against Chinese, I saw vlog of indian guy going to China and they were so friendly and helpful. I do have problem with CCP and they are the reason we spend 80billion on defence Evey year. That money can help lot people

[@raidenshougun9663]

wdym, the majority of chinese don't have access to KZbin

[@Shubham_Bahirat]

@@raidenshougun9663 still they have presens, also Pakistani people fight for them.

[@4-SeasonNature]

​@@Shubham_BahiratI bet the same can be said of India and Indians.

[@_0______00__________0_______0]

The differences between China and India are why I dont really take BRICS seriously as an entity. All those countries can do some economically impressive things individually, but theres not much cohesion and in the case of India and China, active conflicts.

[@ZETA14.88]

brics aren't alliance, they don't need to agree on everything. If anything it's even more important for 2 countries of so many difference to actually have dialog one another

[@scotts5886]

Agreed. BRICS might be a good idea one day. But not anytime soon.

[@MCArt25]

BRICS was initiated by Morgan and other Western investment firms. Any political cooperation is irrelevant to its original purpose, which is to have emerging markets talk to one another and hopefully agree to market liberalization measures for these investment firms' benefits.

[@TathD]

BRICS is more like a forum where they try to counterbalance the dominance of the West in the global economic order. The object is a more multipolar world where they can make their voices heard. To that end they have set up alternate financial institutions as well. So despite the bilateral conflicts the BRICS agenda is something that these countries actually agree on. It's not going to overthrow the G7 anytime soon but that's because the member-states' economies aren't there yet, not because they lack common ground. But the point was always to mount a challenge, not to immediately succeed.

[@Eltener123]

Turkey and Greece are both part of NATO...

[@Sayedx64]

Why I'm gonna touch polymatter

[@Im_Z_4747]

Lol

[@A-lik]

Sir, I'm gonna have to ask you to please not encroach on sovereign Polymatter territory...

[@gnochhuos645]

With or without consent?

[@Sparkiebc]

HUH????

[@rahulroy9310]

EY YO WHAT!

[@SukhdevSingh-ge5rj]

17:51 Yeah 👍😅😅😅😅Xi Jin Peng and Narendra Modi should subscribe to Brilliant to lower tensions 😊😊😊😊 from Malaysia 🇲🇾🇲🇾🇲🇾🇲🇾

[@maxchi1176]

But modi mostly lovely to hugging with gang up with White thought can control china on table what ever aspect is.....but at the end is zero

[@polarbearwithaccesstointernet]

Oh man was just looking to visit those countries from Canada alas there exists no flight in between them , Sincerely A frustrated Polar Bear

[@chiquita683]

Why would anyone go to india?

[@victorwan7346]

@@andyistphdhpc2726 nice one

[@bigmike9128]

Polar bears 🐻‍❄ are in the north pole not south pole.

[@polarbearwithaccesstointernet]

@@bigmike9128 nvm I am Candian polar bear

[@asakurayoh3909]

@@chiquita683 Why would anyone go to communist China?

[@clydeds123]

I stay in Thane, a suburb of Mumbai. Before pandemic, lots of Chinese tourists used to come here. I met a few of them. Now however, not a single Chinese Tourists are seen here. And now I know why 🤔🤔 !

[@RakeshRai-yp1fc]

Because I am also a Indian & 20 year corporate experience....and I proudly say that Indian ESTABLISHMENT are the biggest ENEMY of their own Civilian i.e., PEOPLE...............Yes, Establishment don't want their SLAVES i.e., Naukar to visit China & see their growth has taken 100 years forward........

[@reggielou2653]

The highest mountain range between two regions that were segregated for 5,000 years or more to develop distinctive languages, culture, tradition, and race.

[@Clklom]

China is not neighbour of India but it's Tibet.....occupied forcefully by China....

[@Root_066]

But the Tibetan language is not much related to Chinese. It looks more of IndoEuropean family

[@ModeSix-ty3dk]

As an Indian, I am impressed by the Indian government's stance. Every country has the right to maintain relationships on equal terms. If China wants a relationship on its terms, then India has every right to deny it and take steps to counter such narrative-based politics from China.

[@汤圆-y7f]

My wish is China and India will never talk to each other, they don't need each other, there is nothing in common between them, they should pretend the other party does NOT exist, life will be better that way.

[@Gurumeierhans]

Yeah, autcratic dictatorship vs autcratic dictatorship is exactly what we needed ...

[@ModeSix-ty3dk]

@@Gurumeierhans 🧠 Here, take this. It seems you lost yours, so I found one that suits you best-it's a donkey's.

[@ModeSix-ty3dk]

@@Gurumeierhans 🧠 Here, take this. It seems you lost yours, so I found one that suits you best-it's a donkey's.

[@AmishKumar-lc7zs]

​@Gurumeierhans Considering our former pathetic system gave as nothing this is way better.

[@perpetualcollapse]

Bros just asking for 50% of the comments to be from Indians saying a single map was wrong and wishing the worst for you (to put it lightly).

[@xyz-je2wx]

Rightfully so

[@lord_of_love_and_thunder]

On paper, an Indo-Chinese economic rapprochement would create great wealth. But the two cultures and systems of government are too different to make this a reality.

[@Cryspio]

Actually cultural our culture with Indians is very similar we respect our parents, we live together with our parents even one of our stories character Wu kong is inspired from hanuman of Ramayan. Buddhism came to china through india only

[@vlada]

They are founding members of BRICS and do 100+ billions in trade yearly. They have economic rapprochement enough to have gotten rid of dollar for trade and are using their own currency to trade. They might have border disputes but economically that difference you speak makes no difference, they are adult enough to separate business from those squabbles. Both Chinese and Indian foreign ministers are among the very best on the planet (the Europeans ones are children), I trust them more to work out there differences than I would the laughable Canadian one or war mongering American ones. Again, those two are adults.

[@confused.cat.]

​@@Cryspiorespecting parents and all applies to all the Asian countries, not just india and china

[@samuelcheung4799]

Cultures are very similar. The governments just can't seem to ever find any spot of agreement.

[@Cryspio]

@@samuelcheung4799 yeh perople are similar but Chinese government is aggressor and attacks every body in the neighbourhood so the political and government thing only applies to one side not to india

[@orugalluvishnuvardhanreddy7027]

Pok is part of India You can't delete that from map

[@Oceansta]

According to you. POK is an internationally recognised as a disputed territory even by The AN.

[@orugalluvishnuvardhanreddy7027]

@@Oceansta we don't care about AN or UN and what they are saying about our land. It is a part of India and will be part of India

[@Oceansta]

​@@orugalluvishnuvardhanreddy7027 you can keep saying that but reality won't change that its a disputed territory. And yes, you do care about UN because you are UN member.

[@adarshtiwari4026]

@@Oceansta sush

[@Oceansta]

@@adarshtiwari4026 delulu 😅

[@all_mighto24]

3:47 incorrect map of India used

[@mubassirzaman7202]

No one would really care anyway, after you pointed out then I'd just notice it.

[@Usersskk]

​@@mubassirzaman7202Pakistan is an integral part of India

[@muzamilraza49]

​@@Usersskk India is an integral part of the trash can 🇮🇳

[@shatzco]

What will you do? Complain to Modi?

[@all_mighto24]

@@shatzco well does not concerns you, I'm pointing it out for the creator

[@sufa-ol1cr]

15:05 Beijing build the new Daxing airport wich half the overall passager flew into Beijing capital airport

[@DW-xt7vz]

How to stretch out 30 seconds of content into an eternity - this video

[@vallgron]

Yeah it's called context

[@sakakaka4064]

Yup, stopped watching after him repeating humself for 3 minutes straight

[@BombayGamer-sz6dp]

😂😂😂

[@okwatever3582]

Facts 😂

[@ZX235w3]

@@vallgron KZbinrs intentionally do that because they get paid by video duration. Longer duration means ads in between. You can search up a simple "how-to" video that should be like 10 seconds of instructions but the KZbinr goes on a rant causing the video to drag into 10 minutes

As a Nepalese citizen, I just want these two superpowers to be peace and harmony. Nepal is becoming a playground of geopolitics with China, India, and the U.S. imposing their vested interest in Nepal.

[@ecoideazventures6417]

Actually it's really sad that poor Nepal is stuck between to these rival giants!

[@sealtrader]

There are only TWO SuperPower in the world, and Endia ain't one of them.

[@T.K.P.]

​@@sealtraderchink

[@T.K.P.]

​@@sealtradermanchuria will be freed by your End ia.

[@sealtrader]

@@T.K.P. What? Speak or TYPE human languages please.

[@spikermike2843]

China prefers to keep it that way. Thank you.

[@Sequaloid]

why did this have to be 20 min

[@perpetualcollapse]

💰

[@jorgegimenezperez9398]

Because if you wanted a quick answer instead of a through explanation you could have just googled it instead

[@AceChina]

This channel likes to waste time by yapping.

[@tHebUm18]

Because the YT algorithm prefers content of similar length from content creators.

[@thecomment9489]

To make sure that propaganda message gets into the heads of his brainwashed viewers.

[@FrankThings-t2c]

>no direct flights between India and China >layover in Hong Kong idk about taiwan but HK is literally China since 1997

[@RustyIShacklefurd]

A technicality. When Chinese citizens currently need to apply for a permit for the right to visit Hong Kong, it's hard to think of it as just another part of China.

[@shermanpeabody6102]

Passport and Visa are not required for travel between China and Taiwan. 350,000 mainland Chinese are married to Taiwanese.🦉

[@slypear]

@@shermanpeabody6102 A permit issued by the Chinese government is required for PRC nationals to travel toTaiwan, just like Hong Kong and Macao

[@samuelcheung4799]

He did specify Mainland China, which we are not a part of.

[@danielch6662]

Sorry, no direct flights between Taipei and New Delhi. Even China Airlines and EVA both want to stop at BKK. But, practically, looking at a map on the wall here, I can see why. 😊

[@chiquita683]

Listen to Notorious BIG - Whats Beef to understand why there's no flights. Both countries stand on bidness

[@user-gb7cl8np3p]

lmao

[@Othawize721]

I don't get it tho

[@Bacinator334]

​@@Othawize721 then stop listening to video game OSTs

[@Tezegeez]

Correction: Lhasa is not Chinese city, it’s Free Tibetan city

[@indubitablyso7874]

You’re a very imaginative person

[@maitreytelang2312]

6:04 Whether it is fertile, not one inch of Indian land shall be surrendered. Would you cede a property which you own, just because it's dilapidated?

[@arcanecrisis]

😂😂😂 defend that line we drew punk 😂😂😂

[@maitreytelang2312]

@@arcanecrisis Mate, you ought to care more about the boats landing on your coast, than about India's border. 😆😆😆

[@pikachus5m166]

South Tibet and the six North East states are not Indian territory, but imperial British annexations. The people there are East Asiatic, Oriental, and not Desi/Dravidian/Aryan. Racially and ethnically Sino Tibetan. India knows its hold on the region is artificial and the amount of AFSA suppression would amount to genocide, but intentionally and conveniently ignored by their former Anglo masters.

[@maitreytelang2312]

@@pikachus5m166 1. COPE!!! 2. Try that propaganda with Taiwan, not us. Multi-millena old Hindu scriptures held Mt. Kailash (currently under CCP administration), as holy. So, tell that Sino-Tibetan nonsense to someone else, you goddamn racist. 3. Ancient Hindu mandirs are found across the length and breath of Far-Eastern India. Those regions have been integral parts of India, and will remain so regardless of whether you accept it or not. 4. Instead of playing the typical Maoist "Holier than thou" game of alleging "genocide", why not focus on the Uygher genocide in Xinjyang, or should I say East Turkmenistan, instead?

[@maitreytelang2312]

@@pikachus5m166 COPE! Keep seething, you CCP propagandist.

[@bat__man__.w]

we arunachali are indians not tibetian we follow bhuddism but we are proud india not chinese and we will fight till our last blood to protect our country glory to ahom kingdom

[@huanwang-ur5ve]

fake ,its a bot

[@Awesome-21]

​@@huanwang-ur5ve Says who? Another bot! Lol!

[@huanwang-ur5ve]

@@Awesome-21 hello ,how are you ? did you pooh on street ,yet?

[@Awesome-21]

@@huanwang-ur5ve Why are you gonna come eat it little doggo 🤡..

[@huanwang-ur5ve]

@@Awesome-21 Ok, dont interact with lezard and safe kolkada doctor

[@TheGutuso]

Excuse me?. Arunachal pradesh aint claimed by China. Im Arunachali. We r indian

[@imyourrealfather-yes]

its a propaganda video. report it.

[@user-tr1zj]

yes, it is in fact claimed and disputed territory they don't care if you stay or go

[@Shubham_Bahirat]

See we don't have marked lines, but we had imaginary boundaries where indian soildiers used to stop at certain points and go back same thing Chinese were doing. But in that case Chinese people didn't stopped then came where indian side used to petrol.

[@allocater2]

"The flights do not go to China, they go to Hong Kong." uuuh... who is gonna tell him?

[@kinchihilary672]

He said maybe you didn't get it

[@confused.cat.]

+100 social credit points

[@tritium1998]

They don't know what Hong Kong is or what it's supposed to do.

[@funghi2606]

West Taiwan should leave India alone !

[@sakakaka4064]

Taiwan is Taiwan, China is China. You're hurting the cause by using this silly meme

[@Foquro]

​@@sakakaka4064 Fr, by saying Taiwan is the "real" China they are just saying the same thing as the PRC...

[@Beyonder1987]

Kashmir is NOT India. Khalistan is NOT India. Nagaland is NOT India

[@AeneasGemini]

@@Foquro except Taiwan is the only one to preserve Chinese culture instead of destroying it. They have more claim than the mainland

[@Eltener123]

@@AeneasGemini by that logic does England have a claim to Normandy for preserving Norman culture in the Channel Islands while France destroyed it?

[@oceanbreeze89]

Hong Kong isn’t China? I’m sure there’s direct flights between HK and Indian cities.

[@bennyutzer]

Lhasa is a chinese city as much as Kyiv is a russian city.

[@edwardsnowden8821]

as much as Tehas, Los àngeles, California Oklahoma Hawaii etc are white American territory

[@dan-bz7dz]

Kiev is a Russian city. It was were the Kivean Rus first settled down, that later became Russia

[@97codycommander]

Poor guy ​@@dan-bz7dz

[@appa609]

Except the part where Lhasa is in China and Kiev remain outside Russia

[@AceChina]

Except that Russia doesn't control Kyiv while China controls Lhasa. 🤷‍♂️

[@freddytang2128]

Huh India is trying to retaliate by banning Chinese travellers? If Chinese tourists want to spend money in India, Indian government want to stop that? Most countries go out of their way to attract tourists. Odd way to retaliate if you ask me

[@sorryi6685]

Indian government have very high IQ. They have also banned a lot of cheap chinese only products. So now they buy it rebranded chinese products at high price from middle men

[@santhoshv3028]

Who stopped Chinese traveller 😂. There is no direct flight that's it. Indian can go to china as well as Chinese can visit India.

[@bhatiabn]

Here is a thing, Indian culture is popular ..be it it's festivals, it's food. There is a reason even the POTUS lights an oil lamp on Diwali

[@somethingelse9228]

@@bhatiabn They do it because Indian voters hold sway on Presidential elections, it has nothing to do with culture.

[@soubhagya8808]

Many of them are caught spying in Eastern India.

[@soyuzssr]

I’m Indian and I admire the Chinese penchant for hard work and perseverance. The politics and geopolitics of this whole India - China relationship is really unfortunate. I had the most wondering time when I was in China in 2019 walking along the streets of Beijing. I wish the British never colonised our lands and put us Indians in this quandary. I dream of us India and China becoming friends, we have so much more in common with the Chinese than we do with the Americans who have only been manipulating us for decades now.

[@ModeSix-ty3dk]

So, in other words, you're saying the 1962 war, the Galwan clash, etc. were not started by China? Grow up, dude. They have a superiority complex-at least we can say this about their leadership. They border 14 countries, and they have conflicts and border disputes with almost all of them. The few disputes they've solved were on their terms, not the other party's. Does that seem normal to you? They started all of this, and you expect India to play by the rules?

[@soyuzssr]

@@ModeSix-ty3dk Yeah right , sit and brood over the same old old. You need to grow up and live the real world. We don’t live in a Hindi movie with poetic justice and all. India’s attitude towards China is the same as Pakistan’s attitude towards India. Pakis are hurting their economy by blocking Indian commerce. India is doing the same with Chinese - chopping their noses to spite their faces. The US will push us to war with China, and believe you me, when push comes to shove, there’s going to be no QUAD or USA to back us up besides some lip service. We’ll be left high and dry. We can’t change our neighbours, so at least try to work things out.

[@HTeo-og1lg]

​@@ModeSix-ty3dk . Look at Ukraine today, So pitifully dumb, At least the next 3 generations of Ukraine have already lost their economic lives for being manipulated into fighting their neighbors for other nation's interests. May God bless India and China, but bring shame and calamity to those that lied and schemes harm on them. Amen.

[@downtomars6268]

@@ModeSix-ty3dk So you think Pakistan and Nepal has border conflicts with China. The only border conflict is with India which has border conflicts with all its neighbors.

[@kafira_07]

Don't know why western peoples always show wrong map of india 🙄

[@naruto6918]

Because it’s most real and authentic map vmro, and i am Indians

[@danielch6662]

With the Hindu nationalist party in such firm control of the country, why do they even want parts of the country that are NOT Hindu? India should just release Kashmir and Punjab, and let them form their own country. And look at the seven sisters. There are 46 million people living there, of which only 24 million are Hindu. And nearly all of them are in Assam. In the remaining 6 states, Hindus are just 30% of the population. Why do they get to rule over the other 70%?

[@mr.commenter7953]

​@@danielch6662another westerner trying to divide India. We don't want your opinion! We were already partitioned in 1947. Leave us alone!

[@naruto6918]

@@danielch6662 stop useless comments. If India should allow Kashmir, northeast as independent countries, then so should China allow Tibet,Xinjiang lol..and if you think it happens only in india, go check US, most advanced country, they do black white, Isn’t Trump a white Christian nationalist? Doesn’t Europe have conservative as well as communist parties and people..Noob🥸

[@mubassirzaman7202]

​@mr.commenter7953 Nah, if you want to have a more Hindu country, please don't force people.

[@mds33483]

In diplomacy it's said their are no permanent friends or enemies... One day will come when it will be the same for India and china as well... It's all about money and nothing makes more money than prosperity and peace...

[@SleepyCatto_]

Bruh, you forgot there is flights from Hong Kong - India 😂

[@valeriepesca]

I support India's claim in galwan valley🇮🇳🇮🇳 ❤ from Philippines 🇵🇭

[@huanwang-ur5ve]

🙉

[@donimic9276]

I was born in China. I also support India's claim and the Philippines's claim on the East Philippines Sea. I've been to Palawan. I love Philippines.

[@Yarxk-j7w]

@@donimic9276 Indian trying to pretend to be a Chinese LOL

[@陳大勇-r7q]

🤣🤣🤣

[@donimic9276]

@@陳大勇-r7q Get out

[@shreder89]

OH look a video about geopolitical conflict between the two most populated countries on earth, surely the comment section will be full of thoughtful and interesting comments....

[@promiseye4974]

Should mentioned visa grant by India,most of businessman in my area literally received none of visa from India. And I believed that is the key reason since they are eliminating FDI from China.

[@chengyoujiang6076]

1:26 No more Brunei as well, starting late October this year (Chinese here). Right now there are flights operated by Royal Brunei Airlines at Beijing.

[@amazon4716]

Fun facts: India was the first nation to have the viral mutation.

[@harbinkiwi]

Hong Kong is part of China, as such there are flights between China & India.

[@plentyofnothing]

They understand that ATWAT - Air Turbulence in a Warming ATmosphere will shake a plane to small pieces mid air at 50 Thousand feet and the people all be screaming "I should have listened to Greater Thornbird"

[@Karnex1]

3:10 does it actually say "Convid" in official government paper lol

[@LearTrough]

All of this will be resolved in 2062, 100 years since the friendship broke.

[@jzk2020]

2:45 soooo there are direct flights between India and China.... Or is Hong Kong not part of China anymore?

[@GeoffO856]

HK has its own immigration process and mainland citizens need a permit from the Chinese government to travel to HK, so not exactly the same thing

[@Donut16367]

India can’t risk their people realizing how ahead China is.

[@s9ka972]

Almost all Indians know China is ahead doesn't mean we have to bow to China

[@Gouliguo]

No, India is much better

[@Yjkikikl1]

Lol😂😂😂

[@snehanshuphukon728]

11:03 No, India doesn't have the software. Hardware and Software both belong to China. China has international big tech like ByteDance (TikTok), Tencent (WeChat), Oppo, Vivo, Huawei, Byd, Alibaba etc. India only has IT outsourcing. The Indian startups are not at the same level as their Chinese counterparts.

[@hououinkyouma1458]

Software mostly belongs to the US . Like this platform

[@joeblodontchno5309]

lol china only manufactures cheap low tech crap & now cant even sell that garbage to the west anymore so they going back to being poor again 😆

[@anupsingha3071]

Our youth wants government jobs bro 💀

[@dr.woozie7500]

It should be noted that neither the Republic of China nor the People’s Republic of China (current CCP) recognize Tibet. In fact, it was part of the Qing empire, so once the Qing collapsed, it was assumed that Tibet was maintained as Chinese territory.

[@Kalinga_3]

By that logic the entire South Asia & SE Asia belongs to India

[@dr.woozie7500]

@@Kalinga_3no it doesn’t. India never had sovereign control of SE Asia. Did both the British Raj and modern India control SE Asia at any point? Learn history.

[@pikachus5m166]

​@@Kalinga_3No, by that logic, India should revert back to 600 separate Maharajah states, none of this Bharat nonsense.

[@tintin5341]

The Chola dynasty ruled over large parts of SE Asia. Learn some history yourself first before you can bs your way through and just because one dynasty of yours controlled a land doesn't mean that it isn't colonialism when it literally invades that land and oppreses the people there​@@dr.woozie7500

[@naruto6918]

@@pikachus5m166lol so you read history only 200-300 years, what was mauryan empire , gupta , delhi sultan, moguls, etc controlling most india, mauryan empire was till half Afghanistan. If all countries starts claiming their king’s territory like iran , turking claiming ottomon empire, mongols claiming half asia😂world war 3 will start.

[@averestless]

US: "Thank you, Himalayas, for not allowing two super powers to collaborate!" UK: "You are very welcome, good sir"

[@ihl0700677525]

Imagine if British India didn't bother to make any agreement with Tibet and Qing Dynasty (and Nationalist China), we wouldn't have just a border conflict but full blown war between them. I mean, they can't even resolve what should be a minor dispute in Galwan Valley, imagine if there's no agreement at all, and both consider the region as free real estate.

[@mr.MazhenL]

We are a developing country and India is the superpower. We have no interest in cooperating with this superpower. If you are interested, go and do it yourself.

[@JetMrBedrock15]

Man shut up we are not superpower after the collapse of Ussr the world became unipolar and that polar is U.S.A​@@mr.MazhenL

[@averestless]

​@@mr.MazhenL Ok, I will go tomorrow. 😂

[@sealtrader]

There are only TWO Superpower in the world and ENDIA ain't one of them. Supperppooer maybe if you talking about ENDIA.

[@Kalinga_3]

If Tibet was part of Qing Empire so it belongs to China. By that logic the entire South Asia & SE Asia belong to India.

[@cnmike1988]

Belongs to british

[@loveulez]

@@cnmike1988 Belongs to the snakes

[@joeblodontchno5309]

even india ruled tibet at one time in history

[@geofflepper3207]

I think that Mongolia would like to put in a few words if that is the direction the discussion is going.

[@dan-bz7dz]

Basing the claim on the British is pretty weak

[@Hiro-eb4zx]

Another fun fact: There are no flights between India and Pakistan either (since the last Delhi-Lahore flight by PIA).

[@tritium1998]

Ironic how dudes think China is desperate for any growth but India can just relax. Other countries don't worry about declining growth rates because their production is already low with undersupply.

[@fischmukke]

I never understand, how the want to work together in BRICS, if they dont solve their problems

[@armandoventura9043]

They do it for the United States, they know that if the United States becomes a formal empire, there will be no one who can stop that threat alone

[@anthonymanderson7671]

No wonder BRICS is a joke.

[@Dumbledore6969x]

Hence why BRICS isn’t for real.

[@armandoventura9043]

@@fischmukke because the US

[@Foquro]

They can exist because of a common enemy

[@ChenTing-nv6tg]

why you say no flights between China and India. There are two airlines flying from Beijing to Delhi, India every single day.

[@soumyasekharsar1591]

No

[@warangomkar]

Map of India is wrong... Kashmir is a part of India as it has always been since so many centuries... An arbitrary line drawn by a British Army man is bullshit!!

[@wasimshaikh1665]

India changed visa requirements for Chinese nationals from 4-5 months to less than 1 month. This happened few days ago.

[@frankfleming1103]

I won't go to India even India government pay me, Southeast Asia are all visa-free, Japan and South Korea is very easy to get visa, why go to India? Give me a reason

[@downtomars6268]

India can put all the restrictions and no Chinese national would even notice.

[@buckyhermit]

Another odd situation - I live in Vancouver, which was one of Chinese airlines' most connected North American destinations before COVID. But since 2020, we haven't seen a mainland Chinese airline land in Vancouver. We have Canadian airlines going from Vancouver to mainland China, but not the other way around. And to this day, I don't really know why. (Airlines from Hong Kong, Taiwan, and Korea are the only non-Canadian airline options to mainland China from Vancouver.)

[@RustyIShacklefurd]

There is literally only 1 direct flight route going between BC and China now and that's the AC25/AC26 route between Vancouver and Shanghai. I say this as a resident of Richmond who visited China a few months ago and was amazed by the lack of options.

[@RustyIShacklefurd]

(not including Hong Kong for ... reasons)

[@appa609]

​@@RustyIShacklefurd Maybe they decided direct to Toronto was more economical

[@buckyhermit]

@@RustyIShacklefurd yup I live in Richmond and have a brother living in Shanghai. He had a hell of a time coming home for vacation. Usually before Covid, it was a super easy flight. Luckily our relatives are in Hong Kong but it’s weird how it was easier to meet up with him there instead of him coming home.

[@huangclpku]

CA998, MF806, and HU7960 currently operate flights to Vancouver once a week each. Chinese carriers are eager to increase the frequency of flights between China and Canada, as the ticket prices for direct flights are significantly high. However, Canadian regulations currently approve only a total of six flights per week.

[@arnasg2230]

Love the video! Nice narration, beautiful animations... I see it took a lot of work. ❤

[@J_X999]

India has been a country of untapped potential for 20 years now. Money and Macro did a great video of why we should stop expecting India to grow like China during the 2000s and 2010s.

[@peterwilson7532]

I'm with India on this.

[@nah95]

11:06 There's a lot more cities besides Bangalore which have a significant IT company presence.

[@Takealookat123]

Tibet is taken by China , North East Indian states are given to India by British, and Sikkim is taken by India. All of these lands are neither Chinese or Indian. They are just taken or given.

[@huanwang-ur5ve]

haha,dark head

[@arya8411]

Not all NE states. Assam, Meghalaya, Manipur and Tripura were with India.

[@huanwang-ur5ve]

@@arya8411 we didnt with dark streetpooer

[@CG_GOKU]

@@huanwang-ur5ve your only resort is racism?, ure literally racially abusing brown people in every comment, what is wrong w you?

[@frankfleming1103]

your brain is full of shit

[@Maitreya-7777]

If anyone from India wants to go ro China, then he has to take flight to Kazakhstan first, then Beijing. Similar for chinese.

[@Allinonetvz]

Chinese bots finally found poly matter, they are here spamming the comments lol.

[@Omer1996E.C]

I can't even blame them, they're always outmatched by Indians 😂

[@Sequaloid]

says the chinese bot

[@columc]

no there arent, it seems like youre the bot

[@Allinonetvz]

@@columc I’m a proud citizen of the worlds largest democracy, tell me is democracy better or an autocracy?

[@trader2137]

@@Allinonetvz autocracy is better because democracy is 'the rule of the stupid' as most of people are stupid. Also China doesnt like indian people for many reasons including racism

[@Grayson_Wu]

11:04 I don't think India has software, man.

[@joeblodontchno5309]

India is an Older Civilization where Chinese, Greeks, Persians and South East Asian students used to come to study in Universities such as Takshashila and Nalanda. Both these Universities were established 2500 and 1500 years back respectively. These two were the oldest universities in the ancient world. The Chinese have gone on record to say "India has culturally colonised China for 2k years" you need to study real chinese history & not ccp lies.. most of ancient chinese culture came from india.. like buddhism, martial arts, tai chi & even sun tzu learned from kautilyas arthasastra etc..

[@Grayson_Wu]

@@joeblodontchno5309 irrelevant to my comment

[@naruto6918]

He would mean IT outsourcing I guess. Software is mostly US.

[@Êíøw57]

​@@Grayson_WuI think you are not wrong about this one

[@hwg5039]

@@joeblodontchno5309 Thank you for telling this amazing joke dude, now find a toilet if you can

[@LEV1ATHYN]

Winnie the Xi, the master at turning friends into enemies & goodwill into animosity.

[@GurunathHari]

Truly insightful. Keep up the good work 🫰

[@dt8101]

15:07 Obviously you don't know that Beijing opened a 2nd international airport called Beijing Daxing in late 2019. That's why Beijing Capital dropped in the ranking.

[@rockycata6078]

India does not want its western aircraft manufacturers to sanction their aerospace industry, as long as train and pipeline activity proceeds. India's BRICS+6 alliance is enough to keep their economic activity stable, with air traffic through 3rd parties. As India balances its relationship with Russia and the west, it cannot be overlooked that India also uses its Russia relationship to defend against China. This tri-lateral relationship is India's only resource to remain independent of western ambitions to recolonize the subcontinent.

[@Êíøw57]

Interesting 🤔 ,, you have this kind of thoughts only bcuz you don't really know what india went through after independence. It's not easy to decolonize india at all but yeah , potentially speaking .. india can break into parts but that won't happen cuz the identity of being an Indian is actually a lot to Indians than any country's citizens. People say it's Britishers that bring india close. I'd say ,, no that's not it. The thing is whole subcontinent is actually filled with vedic culture and vedic religions except some parts like pakistan and Bangladesh that's why they got their own country. Initially , we were planning to create a total hindu and muslim nation but that plan was dropped due to secularism values

[@Swiplys]

We just play all sides. India is #1 in bypassing sanctions

[@bristoled93]

There are no Western ambitions to colonize anywhere.

[@fauxhound5061]

Can you talk faster than 1 word per working day??

[@ritz84in]

Play 2x if you are so bothered 😂

[@T.K.P.]

Good referrence 1 word per working day 😂😂😂😂

[@T.K.P.]

Good reference 1 word per working day 😂😂😂😂

[@KL-og7jk]

Can you discuss the territories China lost to Russia? You would be amazed how big it is and the dispute area between China and India is a child play thing!!! And China keeps quiet about it. Why?

[@dan-bz7dz]

China is reasonable. This border dispute will be settled eventually

[@Tao-l2y]

This is good, hopefully the flights never resume.

[@TsuyuriNagisa]

8:44 Imagine that two civilised and well-equipped countries’ soldiers fought against each other in the most primitive way in 2020

[@2531Prasad]

I'd like to mention the most popular Food In India is Chinese and most Popular Language is English. Also China hasn't banned India from visiting, Indians can Visit China and Indian Students are enrolled in Chinese Universities with growing numbers

[@sskk1617]

The most popular food in India is Indian food, not Chinese food. And the most popular language is not English - it is the language of every region or state. China can do what it wants in terms of visas - no need for India to reciprocate when Indian soldiers are killed and territory attempted to be seized.

[@2531Prasad]

@@sskk1617 The Fact that everyone speaks their own language in their state makes English the Most understood language nation wide. You go to north you'll see North Indian + Chinese on Menu . You got to south You'll see South Indian + Chinese on Menu

[@sskk1617]

@@2531Prasad That does not make the Chinese food most popular. Most popular means what most people eat regularly - and it is not Chinese food. Also while educated people the nation over may understand English, it is way behind in terms of sheer numbers of people who understand it compared to other languages. Hence it cannot be the most popular language.

[@henrik908]

​@@2531Prasadgo and give phone back to mommy kid.

[@naruto6918]

@@2531Prasadi mean what Chinese food you eat😅its just street foods like noodles, momos, fried rice, manchurian etc but that’s not mass favorite. Everyone eat dal , rice, chappati, paneer, south indian etc

[@王静怡-p2k]

Fun fact: the only border port between China and India is located on the Sikkim State. Why? China and India have a serious boundary dispute. But China and Sikkim Kingdom remained the peace. After Sikkim Kingdom was annexed by India, this peaceful boundary was also succeeded by India. However, other boundaries still remain dispute and low-level conflict.

[@mr.commenter7953]

Forgot to mention how China occupied Tibet in the 1950s? India and China never shared a historical border. India's border has always been with Tibet, not China. #freetibet

[@Usersskk]

Forgot about occupation of tibet by china 😂. Free tibet ❤

[@kabir1934]

Actually annexed peacefully by spreading Indian nationalism by Indian intelligence, I heard about that

[@lagrangewei]

@@mr.commenter7953 China did not occupied Tibet only in 1950. if they did, why does British have treaties with China on Tibet? the reality is it was the British that elimiated Tibetan selfrule when Younghusband invaded Lhasa, this destroyed the tibetan garrison army and force Dalai Lama to flee to Beijing to which Beijing demanded the term of selfrule to be ended if Dalai Lama want China to help him recover control of Lhasa from Younghusband. Dalai Lama with his army destroyed has no choice but to accept Beijing's terms. and he would return to Lhasa together with a Beijing appointed governor... of course white media never report on this fact, they have to whitewash history to make British look better and promote a racist narrative against Chinese. however the document do not lie and you can't just pretend the British never invaded Tibet.

[@warpdrive9229]

What are you smoking? Sikkim annexed by India? People of Sikkim willingly wanted to join India after a referendum. 97.55% were in favour of joining India over China or independence.

[@toushikbanik8452]

1:38 bhutan do have trafic lights i have bean on that country

[@niranjand4238]

So you are saying Chinese withdrew from their vantage point as agreed and Indians casually went there and fought with Chinese soldiers?? Hmm 🤔

[@d02v]

My uncle literally went to Beijing on a direct flight from Mumbai just yesterday, for a business trip. Also he's coming back from Shanghai on a direct flight a week later.

[@vault34overseer]

Another example showing how different Hong Kong is from China.

[@johnl.7754]

Not as different anymore

[@letsgoeverywhere]

Not anymore.

[@xiphoid2011]

Sadly, china's promise of 50 years of autonomy turned out to be a lie. Didn't even last half as long.

[@okwatever3582]

Sadly, not gonna be long before it converts into mainland China’s landscape.

[@jkselama4698]

How can Hong Kong be different from China when IT is China.

[@humeng-u5z]

Cold Knowledge: There are only 6 Chinese students in New Delhi, the capital of India, because the Indian government doesn't give business and study visas to Chinese, these people haven't gone back to China for a long time, because going back to China would mean facing the awkward situation of not being able to go back to India, which would prevent them from getting their diplomas. A few years ago, China invested heavily in India, and then India cut a large number of Chinese visas, resulting in many Chinese employees not being able to travel to India. Many Chinese who were doing import/export trade in India have also left the country, so I guess India got what it wanted. Also, in the last few years, India has introduced laws to scrutinize investments from countries neighboring it, and even without considering the possible malice behind this, just with India's administrative efficiency and corruption issues (no one would argue that there aren't any of these issues, right?) ), this will already result in many Chinese not being able to travel to India to do business. Let me cut out some of my malicious speculations here and just list these examples.

[@xijinpig8982]

@@humeng-u5z The thing is, India got what it wanted. What India and Indians wanted after the Galwan clash was to erase China as much as possible from India, and it achieved that. I said this is another comment but India was once security > economy and China was economy > security, which is why Indian economy wasn't growing all that much. But now China has moved on to security > economy. But India remains the same only when dealing with China (security > economy) but treats every other country as economy > security. And it's not a problem of the Indian government, it is what majority of Indian people want. Indian people do not want to sacrifice the security and land for more economic growth.

[@humeng-u5z]

@@xijinpig8982 I can refute every single sentence in your paragraph, but let's focus on the main point here: can robbing Chinese companies of their assets in India, blocking Chinese applications in India, chasing away Chinese businessmen and students in India, and blocking Chinese investment in India protect India's security and expand India's territory? Probably contrary to what you think, the vast majority here is not to protect India's national security, most of it is motivated by economic interests, and like India's harvesting of foreign investment in history, it's just a bunch of upper class people dividing the spoils.

[@mrstrange218]

​@@xijinpig8982 I disagree with your erasing China from India part. Trade with China is at all time high. Government is planning to relax restrictions for Chinese businesses. Indian businesses are frustrated because they can't get cheaper raw materials.

[@dummynodepanda]

@@humeng-u5z I mean it's a complicated subject, you gave your points in the perspective of China but India has its own perspective. The constant border disputes and China releasing their new map basically gave a very clear message to India and the rest of South-East Asia: "We have sole rights over Asia, we get what we want regardless of what your opinion is". China also projects an extremely bad image of India and Indians to their citizens and China has been debt-trapping every other country around India with military bases and pushing anti-India sentiment to other countries' populations. This is absolutely unacceptable, so why shouldn't India fight back?

[@Yarxk-j7w]

Congratulations, After so many discriminatory terms against Chinese companies, not many Chinese companies will go to India now except some western controlled Chinese companies. India's Modi really did the worst job possible to improve India's economy. India right now has a very bad reputation in business world. India's senior official and leaders only has one last options. Which is the west, and let me tell you, they will sell their souls and India is more likely become another Brazil and Argentina. The India government will sell farmlands and resources at a discounted price in exchange for west investment, and there is really no other options.

[@FatehKaranChohan]

I actually think it’s because India has gotten a lot more direct flights to the US and Canada so there’s now a lack of demand for layovers in other places. The demand that is there is for people who prefer ANA, JA, Cathay, Korea air etc…

[@nishithkumar267]

Hey Polymatter, advise you to change the displayed map of India in order to not attract any controversies.

[@jyosou]

原来是这样的么，我第一次知道。不过中国人除了做生意以外应该真的真的真的没有人愿意去印度旅游，所以维持现状挺好的

[@SS-eu2ef]

I’m glad the feeling is reciprocal, we Indians don’t want anything to do with China either 🙏

[@seawater1322]

@@SS-eu2ef But CHina lives rent free in every indian's bobble head. Wion and first post NON stop talking about china. Meanwhile in China no one really give a fuk about india at all. No one speaks about them or think about them.

[@seawater1322]

@@SS-eu2ef and there's a surge of dirty indian vloggers going to CHina, and seeing just how backward india really is in comparison to China. Don't pretend like you don't know curry breath, you've watched them already.

[@jolly-rancher]

​@@seawater1322yeah what's up with all the poo going to China? Why don't the Chinese stop issuing them visas? They should at least use reciprocity as an excuse

[@Grayson_Wu]

@@SS-eu2ef 🤝达成共识。反正我们的公司进入印度市场都会被你们敲诈，不如直接放弃

[@appa609]

Delhi to Hong Kong is India to China though. This is 2024 not 1994.

[@Root_066]

from Honkong to mainland by tuk tuk?

[@anshbhagania]

I work with Air China, the national airline of China as IT support from Bangalore and we have not met our Chinese team since 2020. Before that they used to visit every other year and now there seems to be no hope with the geopolitical situation

[@OneDerscoreOneder]

The graphic at 15:00 is very well made

[@UditYadav-rw9yc]

Hey Fellow creator, great efforts to produce this video but I request do not put this map(3:42) representing India on the Global Map like this. Please Correct it, the disputed land not shown here are still and will always be an Integral part of India.

[@sharadmathurrr]

bhai rehne do aap

[@Petrolhead11]

TLDR: It's rather economical (Himalaya) reasons then politics. India and China have border disputes but clearly not isolated from each other.

[@LatestMerch]

You mean North Taiwan?

[@starleighpersonal]

Taiwan calls themselves (The Republic of) China too, you are hurting Taiwanese independence by referring them by the name of the island they are on, instead of the land they claim to own.

[@LatestMerch]

@@starleighpersonal They don't call themselves ROC...it is the North Taiwan that forces others to call them ROC...Olympics are one of the examples.

[@Foquro]

​@@LatestMerchok, thats just wrong. Taiwan is just the name of the island

[@Foquro]

Are you American? Cuz your geography skills really suck. China is to the west of Taiwan...

[@Foquro]

Also, what makes you think Taiwan is the "real" China?

[@wohetang]

Great. Wish this will be forever!!

[@RB-fp8hn]

From the Indian perspective, one sentence from Polymatter sums up the problem: "The Chinese city of Lhasa". I am not sure Polymatter even realized the significance of that sentence. Indians don't think of Tibet as China. Culturally and civilizationally, Tibet was/is much closer to India. In terms of current military and political power, it's the opposite. Add to that the Chinese claims on Ladakh, the entirety of the state of Arunachal Pradesh, and that they don't consider the entire state of Sikkim to be a part of India, and you have more than enough reasons for a highly adversarial relation between the two nations. India simply views China as a colonial power eating up Indian territory, and the CCP reinforces that view all the time.

[@PomegranateChocolate]

Typical nonsense. In fact, there is a 180-degree shift in India's geopolitical viewpoint after gaining independence from British rule. British historian Arnold Toynbee noted that while Indians were subjects of the British Crown, they were largely indifferent to British India's borders and even condemned the British Empire's annexation of distant territories as immoral. In 1921, India's Congress Party went so far as to urge neighboring states not to enter into treaties with the Imperial Power (the British Raj). However, once Indians assumed sovereignty, their perspective underwent a complete reversal. Suddenly, the once-distant lands of the British Indian Empire were seen as sacred Indian territory. Even more alarmingly, India began asserting territorial claims over areas that had never been claimed, let alone controlled, by the British Raj. In essence, aspiring to emulate the British Raj, India became expansionist in its own right. In Arnold Toynbee's words: "It is queer that lines drawn by British officials should have been consecrated as precious national assets of the British Indian Empire's non-British successor states. At the time when those lines were drawn the transaction produced no stir among the . . . Indian . . . subjects, as they then were, of the British crown. If any of them paid any attention to what Durand and McMahon were doing, they will have written it off as just another move in the immoral game of power politics that the British Imperialists were playing at the Indian tax-payers' expense. The present consecration of these British-made lines as heirlooms in the successor states' national heritages is an unexpected and unfortunate turn of History's wheel." The one who sees itself as a colonial power is India. And this is the reason India land grabbed every one of its neighbors once it came into existence. 1947 Annexation of Kashmir 1949 Annexation of Manipur 1949 Annexation of Tripura 1951 Annexation of South Tibet: 1961 Annexation of Goa: 1962 Annexation of Kalapani, Nepal: 1962 Aggression against China: 1971 Annexation of Turtuk, Pakistan: 1972 Annexation of Tin Bigha, Bangladesh 1975 Annexation of Sikkim (the whole country): 1983 (Aborted) Attempted invasion of Mauritius 1990 (Failed) Attempted annexation of Bhutan: 2006 Annexation of Duars, Bhutan: 2013 Annexation of Moreh, Myanmar

[@RB-fp8hn]

@@PomegranateChocolate You quote a British historian, and give a list that basically translates to "India annexed India". It's really funny to see you include even places like Tripura and Manipur, where my family is from. Also, please stop crying about fictional events like a 1990 attempted annexation of Bhutan, 2013 annexation of Moreh, and so on. I shared the Indian perspective. I hope you understand what "perspective" means. In the end, though, neither perspective will matter. Whichever nation has a better military and political strategy will win. The relation, however, will remain adversarial. You have made that very clear.

[@dan-bz7dz]

Not to mention the brutal occupation of Kashmir

[@zengpang3177]

India is basically spreading poverty by Invading other countries. look at South Tibet, the wage in south Tibet is ten times less than the wage in North Tibet. In North Tibet people drive their own car when they travel, in south Tibet people ride rickshaw and bikes. Portuguese is ten times richer than India too, look at what happened in Goa, people ride rickshaw and bikes now in Goa. And India even want to be a member of UN security council by invasion if they could. How pathetic is that? Do they want poverty reach out to UN security council as well?😅

[@shermanpeabody6102]

​@@RB-fp8hn Did India army stop the unrest and violences in Manipur ?