China sustains border disputes to win concessions from neighbours: Strategic expert Bertil Lintner – The Economic Times

BEIJING: China has long stoked and sustained borderland disputes as a tactic to win concessions on wider issues with its neighbours, according to strategic expert Bertil Lintner . While recalling the 1962 India-China war and recent cash in Ladakh region, Lintner, in an opinion piece for Asia Times, questions “whether China is really looking for a solution to that long-standing and often bitter border dispute, or if maintaining fuzzy borders is a deliberate tool in Beijing ‘s foreign policy to negotiate better terms on trade, security and other issues with its neighbours.” The analyst says that with Beijing’s recent rise…