![]() ![]() For centuries China has tried to ensure that it could never happen. 'In an ever more complex, chaotic and interlinked world, Prisoners of Geography is a concise and useful primer on geo-politics.'- 'Newsweek Europe' 'Marshall is excellent on some of the highways and byways of geopolitics.'- 'Financial Times' 'Fans of geography, history and politics (and maps) will be enthralled. It matters not whether India wants to cut off China’s river supply, only that it would have the power to do so. China, a country with approximately the same volume of water usage as the USA, but with a population five times as large, will clearly not allow that. ![]() This would give India the commanding heights of the Tibetan Plateau and a base from which to push into the Chinese heartland, as well as control of the Tibetan sources of three of China’s great rivers, the Yellow, Yangtze and Mekong, which is why Tibet is known as ‘China’s Water Tower’. If China did not control Tibet, it would always be possible that India might attempt to do so. Of course the border is really the Tibetan–Indian border – and that is precisely why China has always wanted to control it. “Very little trade has moved between China and India over the centuries, and that is unlikely to change soon. ![]()
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