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At the Shanghai Cooperation Organization summit, India openly opposed Kyrgyzstan's initiative on the mainland's "One Belt, One Road" project, which can be said to have completely offended the mainland.
After the Indian side knew that it had completely offended the mainland, it refused to give up and decided to add more blockage to the mainland, and Indian Prime Minister Modi recently sent his foreign secretary Venai Venai. Mohan. Quartra visited a country. This country is a small country on the mainland on the southern border of Tibet, Bhutan.
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi's foreign secretary, Vinai. Mohan. Kwatra met with King Jigm of Bhutan. Kesar. Nameyer. Wangchug and King Wangchug's Prime Minister Lothar. Celin.
Prime Minister Modi's Foreign Secretary and Foreign Secretary travelled to Bhutan to preside over the third secretarial level meeting between India and Bhutan. There is also a hidden purpose, that is, to undermine the issue of the demarcation of the border between the mainland and Bhutan and the establishment of diplomatic relations between the mainland and the two countries of Bhutan.
Bhutan, is a neighboring country of the mainland on the southern border of Tibet, Bhutan is built on the Himalayan mountains, the climate difference between the north and the south is very large, the northern part of Bhutan is in the Himalayan mountains, the climate is relatively cold, but the southern part of Bhutan is in the valley basin region of the country, similar to Bangladesh, belongs to the subtropical climate.
Bhutan has beautiful scenery and a large number of natural and cultural landscapes. Every year, it attracts a large number of tourists from all over the world, including many Chinese tourists, and the country of Bhutan is generally friendly to the mainland, and mainland tourists can still travel to Bhutan visa-free.
However, it is worth noting that the country of Bhutan has not yet established formal diplomatic relations with the mainland, but foreign exchanges between China and Bhutan are very frequent. The mainland and Bhutan have repeatedly held open dialogues in various international diplomatic occasions, and senior officials of the mainland foreign ministry have visited Bhutan almost every year in recent years in preparation for the establishment of diplomatic relations between China and Bhutan.
At the same time, the king of Bhutan also sent relevant officials to visit the capital of the mainland, Beijing, and Jigham. Kesar. Nameyer. King Wangchug also personally met with senior officials of the mainland's Ministry of Foreign Affairs on several occasions. When the mainland "returned to the United Nations" in 1971, Bhutan voted in favor of the bill to regain China's lawful seat in the United Nations.
In fact, the fact that Bhutan has not yet established diplomatic relations with the mainland is not due to Bhutan's subjective will. Bhutan was semi-colonized by the British long before the end of World War II, and after the end of World War II, India became independent from Pakistan and Burma, three components of the former British India.
Due to its proximity to India and its weak national strength, Bhutan became a vassal state of India. Bhutan's diplomatic power was also largely controlled by India, which was loosened only after the twenty-first century. Bhutan has a considerable number of disputed territories with the mainland, mainly because China and Bhutan have not established diplomatic relations, so the border demarcation negotiations between the two countries have never been carried out to the end. Instead, starting in the eighties of the last century, a long "border demarcation marathon" was carried out for more than forty years.
But just this year, negotiations between China and Bhutan have basically come to an end, with Bhutan officially recognizing most of the disputed territories claimed by the mainland, including Kuragang Ribeng, and sovereignty belongs to the mainland. In fact, some of the disputes between China and Bhutan over related areas such as Kuragang Rifeng are only caused by the lack of synchronization of the map updates of the two sides, coupled with the fact that the two countries have not been able to formally establish diplomatic relations, and the high-level communication between the two sides is somewhat poor at the diplomatic level. At present, there are still quite a few territorial disputes between the mainland and Bhutan, but this problem cannot be solved at this stage, because this part of the territorial dispute is not actually Bhutan's main responsibility.
The main responsibility is still in India, where the mainland completely defeated the Indian army, which had just recovered Portuguese India, and successfully recovered southern Tibet in the war against India in the sixties of the last century. However, due to poor logistical supplies and other reasons, the mainland army soon withdrew from southern Tibet, and the Indian army quickly re-entered and occupied southern Tibet.
While India occupied southern Tibet, it handed over part of the mainland southern Tibet to Bhutan for administration, so that is to say, the mainland and the remaining part of the disputed territory of Bhutan are separated by the area under the actual control of India. At present, the mainland does not have the strength to exist in that part of southern Tibet, so if it wants to completely resolve this part of the territorial dispute with Bhutan, it can only negotiate after the territorial dispute with India is completely resolved, and Bhutan will not be as "obsessed" as India in this regard.
It is not surprising that India now regards Bhutan as its sphere of influence, and that India has always claimed to be the hegemon of South Asia. India's visit to Bhutan is also aimed at sabotaging the negotiations on the demarcation of the territorial boundary between China and Bhutan, and is also hoping to hinder the successful establishment of diplomatic relations between China and Bhutan.
On the one hand, China has basically completed the territorial demarcation with Bhutan, on the other hand, China's influence penetration in South Asia has become stronger and stronger, Bhutan, as the northernmost country in South Asia, has the most obvious feeling of China's influence penetration, so it is imperative for Bhutan to change the current diplomatic strategy with India as the main body. I think in the near future, we will be able to see the establishment of diplomatic relations between China and Bhutan.