Geopolitical Pills:Largest Chinese military exercises(10,000 men)are taking place,on border with territory of Ladakh,(Indian Kashmir).What does China want from India?What is "Pakistani Corridor"?Is a local war on the model of that between Armenia and Azergaijan possible?Continue
The"Pakistani Corridor"is a gigantic transit project under construction that would allow Chinese goods to find a rapid outlet on the Indian Ocean,in the context of the Chinese "New Silk Road". Its opposed by the US,while Pakistan is currently China's main ally in the region.....
Taking advantage of the historic rivalries between India and Pakistan for control of Kashmir(claimed by both),China has already occupied mountain territories after the brief India-China war of the 1960s. But now it needs of Ladakh to secure the Pakistani corridor ...
India should allow China full free transit on Ladakh. Otherwise, a China-Pakistan vs India war could lead (according to the Chinese) to a conquest of Indian Kashmir and a consequent partition between Pakistan and India: Ladakh(yellow)to China and Indian Kashmir(Pink)to Pakistan.
Indian Kashmir has an Islamic majority while Ladakh has a Buddhist majority.The Pakistani corridor starts from the Chinese province of Xinjiang Uyghur, where there is a revolt of local Muslims with an anti-Chinese function fomented by the United States.