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Bhutan's gasoline actually comes from India, an underdeveloped country with Indian influence everywhere.
Bhutan is a country located in the southern part of Tibet on the mainland, sandwiched between the mainland and India, and it is destined that the country has the most exchanges between China and India.
Within Bhutan, however, most of the Xi customs are closer to India than to the Tibetan local customs on the same plateau.
Even in Bhutan, the gasoline comes from India, so why is Bhutan more closely related to India on the Tibetan Plateau?
Bhutan was a vassal state of China until the end of the Qing Dynasty, but it was not until the British colonized India in the 18th century that Bhutan became a new target for the British, constantly encroaching on Bhutan's territory.
In order to completely control Bhutan, Britain began to eliminate Bhutan's influence on China, and at the beginning of the 20th century, Britain directly stated in government documents that China could not communicate with Bhutan.
Otherwise, it would pose a threat to the British colonies, and later India copied the British approach to Bhutan.
And through pressure on Bhutan, Britain successfully obtained Bhutan's diplomatic rights and began to take the initiative to eliminate the influence from China.
After World War II, Britain's influence in various places declined, many colonial countries became independent, and India also became independent from Britain.
Bhutan also saw the opportunity and began to plan independence, but what Bhutan did not know was that Bhutan had left Britain and came to India, and Bhutan had specially sent people to India to discuss independence.
As a result, India was determined to follow the British path in Bhutan, and at the same time as Bhutan became independent, all British privileges were to be transferred to India, causing discontent in Bhutan.
After India's independence, it directly announced that it recognized the various treaties signed by Britain with neighboring countries, revealing a lot of ambition and forgetting the shame of being colonized.
Although Bhutan was dissatisfied, it was not strong enough to compete with India, and in 1949, Bhutan signed a treaty with India.
In the treaty, India stated that it would not interfere in Bhutan's internal affairs, but Bhutan's foreign relations should be guided by India, which in fact determines Bhutan's diplomatic rights.
Moreover, India has also said that it will give Bhutan 500,000 rupees a year for domestic development, but the price is that Bhutan cannot import weapons privately, and if it wants to import weapons, it can only negotiate with India, and as long as India does not agree, it cannot buy them.
India is afraid that Bhutan will lose control of Bhutan if it resists by force, and India calls this treaty a treaty of permanent friendship, which can be called a cover-up.
However, India's ambitions did not end there, and next to Bhutan there was once a state called Sikkim, which was also a vassal state of the Qing Dynasty.
However, under the continuous penetration of India, it eventually became a state of India, and the king of Sikkim had to flee abroad, and India wanted to swallow Bhutan in the way of Sikkim.
Therefore, although India and Bhutan have signed a treaty, the two countries have not established diplomatic relations for a long time, and India has always wanted to annex Bhutan.
Bhutan has repeatedly asked the two countries to establish diplomatic relations, but India has either ignored them or refused them, and has been dragging it out.
Bhutan, also fearful of becoming the next Sikkim, plans to join the United Nations, and while India is ostensibly supportive, it is secretly reluctant to join the United Nations.
However, Bhutan had already submitted its application, and India's active intervention was untenable in the international community, so it had to support Bhutan's accession to the United Nations, and Bhutan successfully became a member of the United Nations in 1971.
But India did not establish diplomatic relations with Bhutan at the ambassadorial level until 1978, 29 years after the signing of the friendship agreement between the two countries.
What is the relationship between Bhutan and India, and why does India have control over every aspect of Bhutan?
In the 60s of the last century, when the mainland and India were talking about the border issue, the Indian side put forward an unbelievable proposal.
That is, while settling the Sino-Indian border, the border issue between China and Bhutan can also be resolved together, and this proposal is really unexpected.
The issue of national borders should be handled by the border itself, and there was no reason for India to deal with it instead of Bhutan, and there was not a single representative of Bhutan at that time.
Therefore, in the face of India's unreasonable demands, the mainland sternly refused, and said that India did not have to worry about the border issue between China and Bhutan.
Bhutan was so happy with the mainland's actions that only China would have treated, but due to India's interference, Bhutan did not dare to publicly support it and had to remain silent.
The mainland's refusal made India very unhappy, but because Bhutan was already a country, India knew that it was wrong and did not mention the matter again.
However, India did not want China to talk to Bhutan alone, so he warned Bhutan that it could not discuss the border issue with China alone, and that India had to be informed of something.
Under India's coercion, Bhutan had no choice but to say that it would not discuss the border issue with China for the time being, and the mainland also respected Bhutan's wishes and did not immediately discuss the border issue with Bhutan.
At the same time, India directly declared that an attack on Bhutan was an attack on India, turning Bhutan into its protectorate, without consulting Bhutan, and then informed the Bhutanese government.
At that time, Bhutan had its own army, numbering about 6,000 people, but India did not allow Bhutan to buy weapons privately, resulting in the Bhutanese army not being able to update its weapons, and Bhutan could not produce them in the country.
At this time, India stood up and expressed its willingness to give Bhutanese a supply update on weapons, and because of the advanced weapons, India would send people to teach and help Bhutan train.
As a result, through such an agreement, India transported more than 1,000 soldiers to Bhutan in the name of army advisers, and Bhutan was instantly at a loss.
Later, India became more and more greedy, and sent a lot of soldiers to Bhutan in this name, and even the United States did not dare to be so blatant.
At the same time, India also re-established a national army in Bhutan under the pretext of maintaining border security, and although most of the soldiers were Bhutanese, all the senior officers and troops were Indians.
However, Bhutan does not dare to say a word about such a practice, so why does Bhutan not fight against India's approach? What is Bhutan, which is controlled by India, now?
Gasoline is all provided by India, and it is difficult for Bhutan to truly get rid of India, and the country's development is becoming more and more difficult. India doesn't pay much attention to Bhutan's own ideas, so has Bhutan resisted, and what is Bhutan like today?
At the beginning of Bhutan's independence in the last century, although they agreed to India's diplomatic guidance to Bhutan, Bhutan's leaders clearly underestimated India's ambitions.
In the foreign conversation, the Bhutanese leader said that India can give us advice, but the decision is still in Bhutan's hands, and India is just treated like a teacher.
Later, Nehru, who was in charge of India, also wrote a fake letter to persuade Bhutan to open up more diplomatic authority to India, but the king of Bhutan directly refused and wrote a letter refusing, saying that the Bhutanese could handle the relevant affairs on their own.
India simply did not pretend to deal with the opposition forces in Bhutan, and even replaced the border between India and Bhutan with the border of India's internal administrative region in India's official documents.
Bhutan immediately expressed its dissatisfaction, and India directly said that it was a problem of color printing and black and white, and it was even popular for a long time, and it was only later that India's consideration of international relations corrected this mistake.
Bhutan only then understood India's wolf ambitions, but by the time Bhutan reacted, India had already controlled all aspects of Bhutanese society.
India has the shadow of India in both national diplomacy and people's lives, and India has gradually strengthened its control over Bhutan in the process of regression again and again.
In order to prevent Bhutan from rebelling, India provides assistance every year, and even personally formulates a five-year plan for Bhutan and pays most of the expenses.
And in the subsequent continuous construction, most of the funds were funded by India, although India invested a lot, but Bhutan's society still did not improve, and in the last century it was still rated as a least developed country.
It is worth mentioning that in the last century, there were nine least developed countries in Asia, and four of them were close to India, and all of them had an unusual relationship with India.
After the collapse of the Soviet Union, India lost a financier, and the United States also believed that India's goal of containing the Soviet Union had been achieved, and greatly reduced its aid to India.
Therefore, India has lost two backers at once, and its hands and feet in the international malpractice have also been reined in a lot, and it has begun to make unprofitable investments in neighboring countries, just to keep Bhutan and other countries.
In 2007, Bhutan also took the opportunity to abolish the previous expression that the treaty was subject to India's diplomatic guidance, and replaced it with the possibility that the two countries could cooperate in various fields, and that Bhutan was not allowed to buy weapons.
Immediately, Bhutan began to turn its target to China, which directly improved China-Bhutan relations, and India, fearing that Bhutan would get close to China, began to increase its assistance to Bhutan.
Even for gasoline, a strategic material, Bhutan took the initiative to provide it, even lower than the international price, and Bhutan saw that India was willing to suffer, so it began to use gasoline from India in the country.
Today, Bhutan is still a country in urgent need of development, although in December last year, Bhutan was separated from the ranks of the least developed countries, but the national standard of living is still very low.
Today's Bhutanese cities resemble the county towns of the last century on the mainland, and there are Indian influences in every aspect of society.
The country's pillar industries are agriculture and tourism, and the industrial base is relatively weak, with a per capita annual income of just over US$2,800 in 2020.
Until now, Bhutan still has not established diplomatic relations with China, but the local culture is greatly influenced by Tibet on the mainland, and the relationship between China and Bhutan is heating up year by year.
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