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A point north of the Markansu River (瑪爾坎蘇河) on the China–Tajikistan border is the westernmost point of China.The border's southern terminus is found at the Afghanistan-China-Tajikistan tripoint on Povalo-Shveikovskogo Peak [14] [15] (Chinese: 波万洛什维科夫斯基峰 [16]; pinyin: Bōwànluò Shíwéikēfūsījī Fēng) / Kokrash Kol Peak (Kekelaqukaole Peak; Chinese ...
On 14 September, one Tajik border guard was killed and two others were wounded during clashes with Kyrgyz guards who accused Tajikistan of taking positions in a demarcated area. [38] Later the same day, two border guards were reported killed and eleven others wounded, five of whom were civilians. [39] On 16 September, the conflict escalated.
The 2020–2021 India–Pakistan border skirmishes were a series of armed clashes between India and Pakistan along the Line of Control in the disputed region of Kashmir, which is subject to extensive territorial claims by both countries.
The January 2007 Xinjiang raid was carried out on January 5, 2007, by Chinese paramilitary police against a suspected East Turkestan Islamic Movement (ETIM) training camp in Akto County in the Pamir plateau.
The 2016–2018 India–Pakistan border skirmishes were a series of armed clashes between India and Pakistan, mostly consisting of heavy exchanges of gunfire between Indian and Pakistani forces across the de facto border, known as the Line of Control (LoC), between the two states in the disputed region of Kashmir.
The term border dispute (or border conflict) applies to cases in which a limited territory is disputed by two or more states, each contending state would publish its own maps to include the same region which would invariably lie along or adjacent to the recognised borders of the competing states, such as the Abyei region which is contested ...
Conflict Combatants Disputed Territories Fatalities 1910: 1918: Border War United States v. Mexico: Mexico–United States border region: 100+ 1932: 1935: Chaco War Bolivia v. Paraguay: Northern Gran Chaco ~100,000 1938: 1938: Battle of Lake Khasan Soviet Union v. Japan: Manchukuo–Soviet Union border region ~1,300 1939: 1939: Slovak ...
The modern border dates from the period of the British Raj when Britain controlled India, which then included what is now Pakistan. In 1899, the British, via its envoy to China Sir Claude MacDonald, proposed what became known as the MacDonald Line to the Chinese government, however the Chinese never responded to the proposal and thus this border was never formalised.