Doklam Conflict Between India & China

In recent decades, regional conflicts between India and China are at a high level of all time. Indian soldiers have stepped in to Doklam area on the Indo-China border. China has been saying that it is its territory. Despite China threatening India to suffer greater consequences than 1962, India is ready to face all the challenges. Nearly 300 Indian soldiers are in front of almost the same number of Chinese soldiers in Doklam, about one hundred meters away. This area has become the issue of dispute between the two countries, and no one is ready to retreat.

Let us know why Doklam is so important for India, China and Bhutan, and where is Doklam:

Doklam Plateau is a 89 square kilometer grassland. Which is located in the Kummari valley of Katar shaped on the banks of the triangular junction of India, Bhutan, China. Doklam is a place where there are boundaries of three countries: India, China and Bhutan.

In fact, China and Bhutan both lay their claim on the Doklam area and it has been a disputed area. On the night of June 8, China started some road construction in this area, and this started the conflict.

On the night of June 8, China started some clutter in this area, which is responsible for the dangerous tension between India and China in recent years.

Two stone bunkers built by the Royal Bhutan Army of Bhutan were broken by a Chinese army, and the construction of a Chinese road was illegally started there. At the request of the army of Bhutan, India intervened and the road construction work was stopped by Indian soldiers. The smallest dispute has now become a major cause for a deadlock between the two countries.

Accusation of China

China has accused India of violating Bhutan's sovereignty and illegally violating the Chinese border in the guise of Bhutan. While India says it will protect the Himalayan country Bhutan. Bhutan has no diplomatic relationship with China. China Foreign Ministry spokesman Gains Wang said, "We do not have any objection on normal bilateral relations between India and Bhutan," but using Bhutan, he strongly opposes the violation in Doklam sector.

Concern of India

The concern of India is to protect its weak Siliguri corridor and "The chicken neck". It is a narrow path of land which connects mainland India with its north-eastern states. If China builds the road, then it will reach this chicken neck of India and at the time of crisis, India's relations can be cut from its north-eastern states.

Possible Situations:

Because no country is willing to retreat, experts believe that in the matter of Doklam, there could be a full fledged war between these two countries of Asia. But still people hope to have a peaceful solution to this issue. China through its newspaper Global Times threatened India of suffering greater consequences than the 1962 war, then India's defense minister Arun Jaitley responded that China should not make the mistake as the present India is not as it was in 1962.

Five Possibilities:

1. India withdraws its army, and China continues building road which is unlikely to happen.
2 China and India withdraw their army and let the status quo be on the issue which is unlikely with China's aggressive approach to this issue.
3 Keeping the status quo without continuing any side and stalemate, which will repeat the incident of Sumudhur valley in 1987 in Arunachal Pradesh. Where the two armies stood in front of each other for months.
4 Both countries resolve the problem through diplomacy and take back the military forces. That would be the best solution.
5 There is a complete war between the two atomic countries.
China will not want confrontation in Doklam because India's position is strong there. Instead, China could open another front, like Arunachal. China has already threatened India to enter Kashmir from Pakistan.

The Doklam issue definitely requires a diplomatic solution, but the stand that India has taken so far can not be opposed. Because India has not given the exact answer to China's hedgehog so far. And if India wants to become a great power in Asia, sometimes it will have to collide with China.