• @JeeBaiChow
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    911 months ago

    Already happening at the south china sea?

  • AutoTL;DRB
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    511 months ago

    This is the best summary I could come up with:


    New satellite imagery has revealed Chinese expansion into territory previously controlled by Bhutan even as China continues to negotiate a border agreement with its neighbor to the south.

    China’s strategy of encouraging settlement in disputed areas appears to supersede the ongoing boundary talks, suggesting an attempt to alter realities on the ground in its favor, researchers say.

    Beijing’s land grab in the north of the Himalayan country was taking place in the form of an “unsanctioned program of settlement construction across the contested border with Bhutan,” open-source analysts John Pollock and Damien Symon wrote in The World Today, a magazine published by the Chatham House think tank in London.

    To do so would require a significant shift in Bhutan’s longstanding policy of not maintaining formal diplomatic ties with any permanent members of the United Nations Security Council.

    “We know that the Chinese authorities are energetically recruiting Tibetans to move to these new locations and putting a lot of money into major construction efforts there,” he told The World Today.

    Tshering, in his October interview with Indian daily The Hindu, said it was only a matter of time before Thimphu and Beijing established relations, but left room for a non-traditional arrangement.


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  • Lath
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    511 months ago

    Yea, Bhutan is about to become Bhugone.