Dead giveaway that this is a propagandist crap. Quote:
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both suffered from imperialist and colonialist aggression, oppression and exploitation.
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Check out all those favored buzzwords of the Communist media machines worldwide!! And they're just tossing them out there, even though both China and India have a history of being guilty of all of the above ... love that stuff.
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The British imperialists did draw an illegal McMahon Line
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Illegal based on what?? International laws didn't really exist, for one thing. For another, the Qing Dynasty was an empire built by conquest of lands that were not her own. The British Empire was also an empire built by conquest. Neither empire had any other basis for claim any land even close to the current border of India and China nor any actual "right of ownership" to the disputed area. Technically, it ought to either be owned by an independent nation of Kashmir, or an independent nation of Tibet. Neither of the more legitimate claimants exist, so the rest is just pointless drivel.
Eh, enough already. The article needs to be reworked by an actual real-life journalist to filter out the fact from the fiction, notate their sources, and above all else
tell it from an impartial viewpoint.
Its reminiscent of the workups done by Goerbels (sp?) for the Nazi press, justifying the invasions of Czechoslovakia and Poland ahead of time. He did a masterful job of aledging abuses to ethnic Germans, or that Poland had attacked first and Germany was simply retaliating. I think we need a better article, preferably written by neither India nor China.