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Love China but have never seen a remotely convincing argument for why they need to claim Arunachal
edit: this continues to be true
Because it's part of Tibet? Idk, why does India need to claim it? Why does India need to own Assam for that matter? Why can't Bangladesh have it? Or be its own state like Nepal or Bhutan? Historical claims are just like that, they're not objective and they often overlap. Who's to say who's right and who's wrong?
Nope, it's part of India. Look at a globe.
and yea, anyone can claim anything. But if you continue to claim the river that feeds 600 million people, expect not to be cooperated with
Well it depends whose globe i look at doesn't it? One side says one thing the other says another.
The point i was making is that most of the lines on the map that we call borders are really arbitrary and the arguments why they should be one way and not the other depend on your point of view. And the border between India and China is especially dubious in legitimacy because it was drawn by the British, and at a time when one of these two countries didn't even exist/was a colony and the other was too weak to defend its sovereign interests and territory.
And i don't understand the point you're making about rivers.
Nope! It's like saying Colombia is part of North America
Again I can't believe I have to say this but yea crackers know literally fucking anything at all about the rest of the world challenge: impossible
I've heard of dividing borders on ethnicity but basing them on continental divides is a new one for me. Would you say all of Russia east of the Urals belongs to mongolia or something?
yes. gb2europe