Border tensions between India and China persist as mistrust deepens, entangled in regional rivalries, global alliances and ...

Aksai Chin, the area in contention, is claimed as part of Xinjiang by China and Ladakh by India. It is cold and inhospitable, draped in snow with temperatures around freezing, even in summer.

The 1962 war over Aksai Chin led to the severing of direct air links between India and China, routes that were not reintroduced until March of this year -- heralding a warming of relations between ...

India 'ready to let China keep Aksai Chin' if neighbour country drops claim to Arunachal Pradesh . By SAURABH SHUKLA . Published: 17:13 EDT, 28 November 2013 | Updated: 17:13 EDT, 28 November 2013 ...

Aksai Chin covers an area of about 14,380 sq miles. The area is largely a vast high-altitude desert with a low point on the Karakash river at about 14,000 feet above the sea level.

India lodged a strong protest with China over its so-called "standard map", laying claim over Arunachal and Aksai Chin, and asserted that such steps complicate the resolution of the boundary issue.

The road, which includes 37 bridges built over snow-fed rivers, took 19 years to construct, providing India the ability to move its troops with much greater speed toward Aksai Chin and Karakoram Pass.

The disengagement may be a sign of easing tensions along part of the India-China border dispute known as the western sector. Also called Ladakh or Aksai Chin, this area comprises roughly 12,7000 ...

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India is facing continuing instability in a Himalayan flashpoint. The region of Aksai Chin has long been contested by India and China and was the site of deadly clashes between the two Asian powers ...

Indian and Chinese troops are in yet another face-off in the Aksai Chin region. How this cold and wind-swept desert became a seemingly intractable dispute is a tale worth telling. It was the ...