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A roadside sign outside Srinagar reads, "If India is a bouquet, Kashmir is the rose in it". No longer, all that one now hears in this green valley is - the sound of guns and the cry for battle. A land, which is, shared between India, Pakistan and China, the role that China plays in the Kashmir crisis is time and again minimized, by both - the Indian government and the media.

India and China, the two most populous countries in the world, share 33% of the world's population between them. They also share approximately 4500 kilometers (2812.5 miles) of mountainous border. It's bewildering to know that historically and geographically there has never been a border between China and India. This was until China invaded Tibet. Today China occupies almost 50,000 square kilometers of Indian Territory in Ladhak, the Line of Actual Control (LAC) between India and China remains undecided and the Indo-China border problem is concentrated in three major areas- Eastern Sector (the NEFA area), Middle Sector (Himachal to Uttar Pradesh) and Northern Sector (Ladhak).

To a large extent the present Indo-China border problem is directly the result of the foreign policy that India followed in the 1950's. Lacking foresight, Nehru's Foreign Policy, which was based on peaceful co-existence and non-alignment, destroyed the identity of one nation and threatened the stability of the other.

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