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      <JournalTitle>ELECTRONIC JOURNAL OF SOCIAL AND STRATEGIC STUDIES</JournalTitle>
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      <Volume-Issue>Volume 5 Issue 1</Volume-Issue>
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      <IssueTopic>Multidisciplinary</IssueTopic>
      <IssueLanguage>English</IssueLanguage>
      <Season>Apr-May 2024</Season>
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      <PubDate>
        <Year>2024</Year>
        <Month>05</Month>
        <Day>31</Day>
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      <ArticleType>Defense Studies</ArticleType>
      <ArticleTitle>Theorising Scenarios for Resumption of Indo-China Border Talks</ArticleTitle>
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      <ArticleLanguage>English</ArticleLanguage>
      <ArticleOA>Y</ArticleOA>
      <FirstPage>24</FirstPage>
      <LastPage>37</LastPage>
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          <FirstName>Ranjit</FirstName>
          <LastName>Singh</LastName>
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      <DOI>10.47362/EJSSS.2024.5102 </DOI>
      <Abstract>Border issues between India and China are complex and fundamental in nature. There were negotiations immediately after independence, but, still led to 1962 War between the two countries. Historically efforts to negotiate Borders were held 45 times from 1981 to 219 in various formats as JWG and SR talks. Further WMCC at Jt Secy level est in 2012 and met 26 times and Corps Commander level talks post Galwan met 21 times till Feb 2024. Clearly China does not wish to negotiate borders and plans to use it as a leverage at opportune moments. There is a typical stalemate since China feels that borders is a settled issue, while India’s stand is to resolve border issues before normalisation of relations. The idea of this article is to theorise scenarios is original, based on open source material and attempt to visualise contingencies that could lead towards breaking this stalemate in border talks. Currently there are no journals or books written on this subject by scholars, though, some of them are writing open source articles and discussing on these lines in some seminars. The endeavour is to connect the dots and link them to resumption of talks for stabilisation of borders between India and China. China had settled its territorial disputes in two phases, in the 1960s and 1990s and in both phases there were two factors viz, an internal crisis and lack of capacity to guard borders that forced it to seek stability on borders with some countries. In the Indo China context, a severe economic crisis leading to civil unrest in the society could be an internal factor and a Taiwan centric conflict leading to China’s lack of capacity to guard borders could be an external factor. Changeover of President due to uprising or ill health and likely low morale in PLA has also been discussed.</Abstract>
      <AbstractLanguage>English</AbstractLanguage>
      <Keywords>Internal vulnerabilities, China’s economic crisis, popular discontent, people’s revolt against Party, Taiwan conflict, capacity to guard borders,LAC delineation talks</Keywords>
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        <Abstract>https://ejsss.net.in/ubijournal-v1copy/journals/abstract.php?article_id=15212&amp;title=Theorising Scenarios for Resumption of Indo-China Border Talks</Abstract>
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