How many countries does China have border disputes - Results of my search

[PeaceGen]

Off course the more deeper it goes the more complex and interesting it become but at the same time it gets more expensive. no one at the point when they really are comfortable to start specially india.
Azerbaijan and Armenia have to stop or it will be flash point for ww3.

i believe Azerbaijan and Armenia are going to remain at just a minor-ish regional conflict.

 

[Sheikh Rauf]

i believe Azerbaijan and Armenia are going to remain at just a minor-ish regional conflict.

we thought about Georgia the same, its all depends on who is siding who before it become bigger conflict.

 

[mike2000 is back]

you're right in principle, but i still believe that looking toward the future is more important than looking toward the past.

and you were out of line on some points already when you started to go into specific accusations, once again : that only derails our discussion, which should be about China's near and mid-term future plans for the region it's located in.



of course i'm uncomfortable with that. the west *won* the international wars, to an extent. and now China wants to expand the wars again, all the while denying that it is up to such plans, in very transparent ways.

as to which is mightier, China or the west and it's *many* free nation allies, we'll see.
i already went into what the west and it's citizens might do, i already went into what China could do to prevent such measures from becoming a necessity. so i'm not going to repeat myself within one thread, ok.

To be fair though. Russia is the one trying to upsurp the world international order that we established decades ago. In this regard the Russians are even more than the Chinese. The Chinese are more reserved in their expansion actually. Russia by contrast has always been an expansionist and interventionist power . In fact they make the Chinese look like good guys actually. Lol. Turkey is also trying to change the long standing status quo in it's neighbourhood as well, but it's complex for western powers to act here since Turkey is a NATO member. So they can get away with many things that very few countries in the region could get away with. Lol

In short, I don't think there's anything to read much into this anyway. European powers France, UK ,GERMANY have no real will or wish to get engage with China in the Pacific over something that is not really a threat to us. Our immediate threat has always been the Russians and it will be that way for a long time to come. China is a distant issue which we just have after thoughts about and to be fair the Chinese don't really pose any real national security threat to our neighborhood unlike Russia . China will be more of an economic/strategic rival in the long term for Europe, not a military one.

 

[PeaceGen]

To be fair though. Russia is the one trying to upsurp the world international order that we established decades ago. In this regard the Russians are even more than the Chinese. The Chinese are more reserved in their expansion actually. Russia by contrast has always been an expansionist and interventionist power . In fact they make the Chinese look like good guys actually. Lol. Turkey is also trying to change the long standing status quo in it's neighbourhood as well, but it's complex for western powers to act here since Turkey is a NATO member. So they can get away with many things that very few countries in the region could get away with. Lol

In short, I don't think there's anything to read much into this anyway. European powers France, UK ,GERMANY have no real will or wish to get engage with China in the Pacific over something that is not really a threat to us. Our immediate threat has always been the Russians and it will be that way for a long time to come. China is a distant issue which we just have after thoughts about and to be fair the Chinese don't really pose any real national security threat to our neighborhood unlike Russia . China will be more of an economic/strategic rival in the long term for Europe, not a military one.

don't get deluded by China's friendly faces, please.
their reputation of oppression and coercion might be different than the Russians', but that doesn't mean they don't pose a threat in the mid- to long-term.

 

[mike2000 is back]

1. Japan – Parts of South China Sea particularly Senkaku Islands, Ryukyu Islands are claimed by Japan and both countries are over a long time tussle with this boundary issue
2. Vietnam – Chinese claim large parts of Vietnam on historical precedent (Ming Dynasty, 1368-1644). Also, Macclesfield Bank, Paracel Islands, parts of the South China Sea and the Spratly Islands.
3. India – China occupies 38,000 sq km Indian territory that goes by the name Aksai Chin. It also claims Arunachal Pradesh and Ladakh. These led to the recent clashes between the PLA and the Indian Army.
4. Nepal – China claims parts of Nepal dating back to the Sino-Nepalese War in 1788-1792. China claims they are part of Tibet, and hence a part of China.
5. North Korea – Baekdu Mountain and Jiandao. China has also on occasion claimed all of North Korea on historical grounds (Yuan Dynasty, 1271-1368).
6. The Philippines – Parts of the South China Sea are contested between the China and Phillippines. The Philippines took this to the International Court of Justice, where they won the case but the Chinese did not abide by the order of the ICJ.
7. Russia – 160,000 square kms is still unilaterally claimed by China, despite China signing several agreements to pacify the disputed area.
8. Singapore – Parts of the South China Sea are contested by both countries.
9. South Korea – Parts of the East China Sea. China has also on occasion claimed all of South Korea on historical grounds (Yuan Dynasty, 1271-1368).
10. Bhutan – Bhutanese enclaves in Tibet, namely Cherkip Gompa, Dho, Dungmar, Gesur, Gezon, Itse Gompa, Khochar, Nyanri, Ringung, Sanmar, Tarchen and Zuthulphuk. Also Kula Kangri and mountainous areas to the west of this peak and the western Haa District of Bhutan is claimed by China.
11. Taiwan – China claims all of Taiwan, but particularly Macclesfi eld Bank, Paracel Islands, Scarborough Shoal, parts of the South China Sea and the Spratly Islands. The Paracel Islands, also called Xisha Islands in Vietnamese, is a group of islands in the South China Sea whose sovereignty is disputed among China, Taiwan and Vietnam disputes the land with Burma.
12. Laos – China claims large areas of Laos on historical precedent again(China’s Yuan Dynasty, 1271-1368).
13. Brunei – Spratly Islands.
14. Tajikistan – China claims this based on historical precedent (Qing Dynasty, 1644-1912).
15. Cambodia – China has, on several occasions, claimed parts of Cambodia on historical grounds(China’s Ming Dynasty, 1368-1644).
16. Indonesia – Parts of the South China Sea.
17. Malaysia – Parts of the South China Sea, particularly Spratly Islands.
18. Mongolia – Chinese claim all of Mongolia on historical precedent (Yuan Dynasty, 1271-1368). Interestingly, Mongolia, under Genghis Khan, occupied China.

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Almost your whole topic is full of flaws actually. Basically, the countries the PRC has border issues with is only one country i.e India. The PRC as I said before has resolved it's border issues all it's other neighbours INCLUDING VIETNAM. So only India remains (I guess for strategic reasons ).
As for the ROC(Taiwan) then they are actually fit your topic perfectly. Since the Republic of China (alias Taiwan) actually claims the territory of all the countries you just mentioned there as part of China (under their rule though. Lol). So there are two different entities with two different ideologies ( CCP and KMT) which they want for China.
The PRC has maritime dispute with Japan over the senkakus islands ONLY. For me I think this is the easiest maritime issue which can be solved with ease compared to the others which are more complex. Since this involves just 3 small rocks in the middle of the ocean, I don't know the Chinese and the Japanese don't just come to an agreement to jointly develop/rule the small island and it's environment . That will be the best outcome. They also have dispute with Malaysia, Indonesia, Brunei, Philippines and Vietnam over SCS islands and it's surrounding. In this regard all the claimants have competing claims against each other. So it's not like it's all of them against China

 

[SuvarnaTeja]

The PRC has maritime dispute with Japan over the senkakus islands ONLY. For me I think this is the easiest maritime issue which can be solved with ease compared to the others which are more complex. Since this involves just 3 small rocks in the middle of the ocean

When is UK giving away

• Gibraltar to Spain
• Diego Garcia to Mauritius
• Falklands to Argentina

 

[mike2000 is back]

don't get deluded by China's friendly faces, please.
their reputation of oppression and coercion might be different than the Russians', but that doesn't mean they don't pose a threat in the mid- to long-term.

Nope, I'm not being deluded by them. I'm making an obvious observation, the Chinese don't pose no real security/military threat to Europe compared to Russia. Especially countries in eastern Europe, Scandinavia and Britain( in fact we are one of the most anti Russian country in western Europe for this reason). Russians jets constantly harrassed them and they fly regularly close to our airspace to test our readiness for obvious reasons. I'm not even counting their military involvement in Syria and now recently Lybia. Same with their active destabilising activities in Eastern Ukraine and of course their illegitimate invasion of Ukraine to seize and annex Crimea , their military pacts and presence with Belarus and constant threats against eastern European countries etc etc. The List is long . So if you ask almost any European country they will obviously view Russia as their greatest threat and rightly so. The Chinese have never had any military designs on Europe since the beginning of times, I don't see that happening even in future as well. So Europe will rightly keep viewing Russia as it's main military threat and our focus will keep being on them and rightly so. We will not intervene in China's issues with it's Asian pacific neighbors. To be honest that's actually the least of our concerns.

 

[mike2000 is back]

When is UK giving away

• Gibraltar to Spain
• Diego Garcia to Mauritius
• Falklands to Argentina

Gilbratar has been a British overseas territory for long, it's a large island and it has inhabitants who want by the vast majority remain under Britain. By contrast Senkakus holds no inhabitants whatsoever, it's too small (just a large rock) and barren. So I think it's mostly a nationalistic issue for the Chinese in general. Since even Hong Kongese and Taiwanese have made expeditions to the island to claim it from Japan.