B1 – Intermediate
Tensions between India and China are not new. These two countries have been in conflict for decades over territories and fought a bloody war in 1962 and have since engaged in several small skirmishes.
Both sides see the area as strategically important, economically and militarily.
Let’s read the article below.
https://breakingnewsenglish.com/2006/200610-border-dispute-4.html
Discussion Questions:
- What do you know about the skirmishes on the China-India border? What would have happened if the skirmishes led to a war?
- How do you think the China-India relationship should develop?
- Has there ever been any trouble along your country’s borders? Talk about this dispute.
- What sources of tension are there between your country and others?
- Can all border disputes be resolved cordially?
2 replies on “China and India Agree to Peace Over Border”
– I did not know anything before reading the article, I suppose that zone must be rich in raw materials or something like that, and that’s why both countries are so interested in it.
-It is unpredictable, but it may be very dangerous, because both countries have nuclear weapons and are very populated.
– They are the most populated countries in the world and both of them, more China, are growing a lot, so I think they could find many ways of working together.
-I think the last one was around 20 years ago and a very small number of troops from Morocco invaded a tiny island in the middle of nowhere, it was not an important problem, because I think we have good diplomatic relationship with Marocco, maybe it was done for putting pression on an economic negotiation or maybe they were doing some practice and did not know that island belonged to Spain or something like that, it was very weird. It was solved very fast by the army, they captured the troops and sent them back to Marocco, it was not an important issue. It was really weird for everybody.
Pufff, I don’t know maybe Gibraltar, It was lost by Spain at the beginning of the 18th century in a war against Great Britain, and we would like it to be Spanish again, but I think that Gibraltarian people, prefer to remain independent under the Commonwealth, there are a lot of economic interests around this.
-Of course, and I think it is how they should be solved.
Good job writing your answers to these questions.
See how you can improve this particular sentence a little bit more.
They are the most populated countries in the world and both of them, more China, are growing a lot, so I think they could find many ways of working together.
> They are two of the most populated countries in the world and both of them, especially China, are growing a lot, so I think they could find many ways to work together.
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