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How countries with 1 billion people settle border dispute

June21

Maybe being a huge country has its own virtue. Instead of resorting to bloody clash or trial spats or fake evidences and historically forgotten artefacts, those titans (which in this case India and China) got their own way to settle border dispute amicably with the help of their gigantic 1 billion population. The notion “people are our greatest resource” is literally what they practice.

Check this article out

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/Army_Gandhigiri_on_China_border/rssarticleshow/3146619.cms

With the PLA making fresh incursions into the Fingertip Area of Sikkim, Indian troops are now blocking the Chinese soldiers by forming human chains.

“We are literally forming human chains to stop the Chinese from crossing over,” says a senior Army officer. “If they come in groups of 20, we assemble 50 men and form a human chain. They can’t after all push us and cross the border.”

Indeed India has brought the matter to the highest appropriate level (literally since the chain also formed in Himalaya) using what reporter call “Gandhian” method.

I guess it will be hilarious if Singapore and Malaysia settle their disputes on Pedra Branca using this “Gandhian” way.

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