Category: Borders

Rumors are circulating in the Indian press that China is working with Bangladesh to refurbish a military base close to the Siliguri Corridor, the narrow and strategically fraught region between Bangladesh and Nepal connecting to the country’s northeast states.  The ...

Security will likely feature prominently during Pakistani Foreign Minister Ishaq Dar’s visit to China. Dar will be in China until Wednesday, his first foreign trip since Pakistan’s recent conflict with India. He will meet with his Chinese counterpart, Wang Yi, and ...

Security will likely feature prominently during Pakistani Foreign Minister Ishaq Dar’s visit to China. Dar will be in China until Wednesday, his first foreign trip since Pakistan’s recent conflict with India. He will meet with his Chinese counterpart, Wang Yi, and ...

Chinese President Xi Jinping urged China and Vietnam on Monday to "be impervious to all interference" in managing their maritime disputes. Xi promotes their bilateral coordination as a strategic model for regional peace and rejects what Beijing ...

Chinese and Vietnamese border soldiers conducted joint patrols last week along their shared land border near the northern Vietnamese province of Hà Giang. Officers from both armies also met to discuss increased cooperation to prevent illegal crossings, smuggling, and other issues. What's ...

A Chinese court sentenced four people to life imprisonment for their role in running cross-border scam operations in Southeast Asia. The sentences come as ongoing crackdowns in collaboration with Thai and Myanmarese authorities free hundreds of trafficking victims forced into working at scam centers in Myanmar.

China’s Assistant Minister of Public Security, Liu Zhongyi, traveled to the Thai border to meet a group of 300 trafficking victims recently rescued from a scam operation in the notorious Myanmarese town of Myawaddy. Liu would accompany hundreds of victims (held in a camp controlled by the Karen ...

Thailand’s Prime Minister Paetongtarn Shinawatra embarked on a four-day visit to China on Wednesday, soon after Thai authorities cut the cross-border power supply to Shwe Kokko, a town in Myanmar said to house huge scam operations staffed by victims of trafficking. The ...

Chinese and Thai officials visited the Thai-Myanmar border region in Tak province on Wednesday to discuss how to tackle Chinese scam gangs embedded across the border in the Myanmarese city of Myawaddy. They are reportedly planning a joint center dedicated to cracking down on the problem.

Observers of China-India relations had a busy fourth quarter last year. In late October 2024, the two states announced the conclusion of a border patrol agreement, signaling a thaw in border tensions that had persisted for more than four years. A flurry of high‑level meetings ...

In October 2024, after nearly four years of diplomatic parleys, India and China reached an agreement on multiple border posts along the Line of Actual Control (LAC), the de facto border between the two countries. The agreement allows the disengagement of troops from the ...

China and India have agreed on a six-point consensus document that will set the terms of the further normalization of their border relations. The agreement resulted from a meeting on Wednesday between Indian National Security Advisor Ajit Doval and Chinese Foreign Minister ...