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  Why Should We Be Concerned About the China-India Border Conflict Long-standing border tensions risk dangerous escalation as rivalry between these nuclear powers heats up. The conflict between Chinese and Indian troops over the two nations' 2,100-mile-long contentious border, known as the Line of Actual Control (LAC), in December 2022, demonstrates a concerning "one step forward, two steps back" tendency. This brawl was the bloodiest in the Galwan Valley since 2020, when violence killed 20 Indian and at least four Chinese soldiers. Although these skirmishes are frequently followed by talks and other measures to alleviate tensions, both parties have militarised their border policy and show no signs of relenting. And the border situation remains tight, with Beijing and New Delhi reinforcing their postures on either side of the LAC, raising the prospect of an escalation between the two nuclear-armed countries. On June 12, 2009, Indian soldiers are spotted in Tawang Va
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Going to bring China over COVID-19 to the International Court of Justice

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  Scholars argued that China's actions in connection with COVID-19 (and the novel SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus), especially with the responsibilities of timing and information communication set out in Articles 6 and 7, violated the International Health Regulations (see, for example, here and here). If China had fulfilled these commitments, today's case of COVID-19 would possibly be exponentially less. This leads another scholar to declare, "China can and must be sued for the massive losses it has caused to the world, and to alert China of the arrival of the lawyers. Nevertheless, all these authors all share one thing: they do not recognize a legal precedent to hold China responsible for these infringements by a foreign court or tribunal. In compliance with Article 56 of the International Health Legislation, at least two researchers have pointed out a conflict resolution mechanism (see here and here), but that mechanism does so only if China accepts that it is of course, v
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