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A big problem is that if any political party would hint at ceding any land in the disputed Arunachal Pradesh area, the other political parties would rail on them for being unpatriotic. As such it is an endless game of strongman posturing for useless territory.
Not sure what things are like on China's end. Maybe they don't want to kowtow a country that has been hostile towards them. Apart from that I have no guesses.
This is basically why the whole thing has gone on as long as it has. China and India need to find a compromise that isn't going to look politically weak for either side.
If they wanted to have an amicable agreement, China could keep Aksai China and India could keep at least most of Arunachal Pradesh. I actually don't know what the geography of the disputed AP territory is but Aksai Chin is useful for China because it connects Tibet to Xinjiang.
China already essentially made that offer, but it was rejected by the Indian side.
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-64870707
Although, the Indian claim the offer was never made.
So hopefully, fingers crossed, this finally gets agreed upon as it's clearly the best solution.
If Pakistan had Imran khan and India had kinda Lula like figure the problem of Kashmir and Laddakh would have been solved in a month. Its pretty easy make Kashmir a joint administered region and make the LOC , the true border between India and China, Case closed forever.
That would be sensible, we'll see what they end up settling on.
Yeah, in order for there to be a negotiated settlement the Indian side has to be willing to deviate from its position of "We get everything we want and you get nothing you want" that its assumed to chase votes. China does have a recent track record of resolving pointless border disputes like the long-running one with Russia back in the 1990s. Both sides just have to come to the table and be reasonable about it, but that's not likely to happen if the Indian media keep claiming that the Indian Army killed 900 trillion PLA soldiers in 2020.