CutTheClutter: India protests as China builds road into Shaksgam Valley, complex China-Pak axis in geopolitics

Satellite images reveal China constructing a road in the Shaksgam Valley of Pakistan-occupied-Kashmir, near the Siachen Glacier, posing security concerns for India. In episode 1444 of #CutTheClutter, Editor-in-chief Shekhar Gupta discusses geopolitical ramifications of such a construction, why the government of India protested against it and what it means for the India-Pakistan-China trijunction across the Karakoram.----more----SINO-PAKISTAN “AGREEMENT" : https://www.claudearpi.in/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/1963-Agreement-GOI.pdf----more----Ramifications of the China-Pakistan Border Treaty Author(s): W. M. Dobell : https://www.jstor.org/stable/2754976----more----China – Pakistan Boundary: https://library.law.fsu.edu/Digital-Collections/LimitsinSeas/pdf/ibs085.pdf----more----SHAKSGAM EXPEDITION, 1937 BY E. E SHIPTON: https://www.alpinejournal.org.uk/Contents/Contents_1938_files/AJ50%2034-59%20Shipton%20Shaksgam%20Expedition.pdf