Senior Fellow, IDSA, Ambassador P Stobdan’s article on India-China border dispute, titled, ‘Ceding Aksai Chin not an option for India’ was published in The Tribune on May 19, 2013.
The Chinese may be making a smart move to let India, in the first step, forego its claim over 38,000 sq km (Aksai-Chin), thereby de-linking Ladakh or J&K sector from the overall boundary dispute.