China’s Grab for Mineral and Water Resources Along the Indian Frontier: Ladakh and Aksai Chin

Published on June 11, 2024

NEW DELHI—There’s much at stake in the border conflict between India and China. The disputed border regions, which start from high-altitude trans-Himalayan tracts and stretch all along the massive mountain range, are home to significant mineral, water and forest resources. The region’s resources include rare earths and water reserves—important both for the extraction of minerals and for powering China’s strategic and economic interests in the region. India divides the massive, disputed border of 2,167 miles into western, central and eastern sectors. As part of a three-article series on China’s theft of mineral and water resources along the Indian frontier, this article focuses on the western sector, which runs along the Indian territories of Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh and includes the frigid desert of Aksai Chin....

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