China and India are intense rivals competing for strategic influence across South Asia
CHUSHUL – Lines on a map once meant little to India 's Tibetan herders of the high Himalayas , expertly guiding their goats through even the harshest winters to pastures on age-old seasonal routes.
Chushul village sits in freezing air at an altitude of some 4,300 metres , although the herders used to take their flocks even higher.China and India, the world's two most populous nations, are intense rivals competing for strategic influence across South Asia. "The physical separation of the two militaries has greatly reduced the risk of clashes," the International Crisis Group wrote in a report last year.The Changpa, ethnic Tibetan Buddhists, are expertly adapted to goat farming in the extreme environment, conditions that produce some of the finest cashmere wool, which is prized for its exceptional warmth.
Stanzin claimed as much as 450 square kilometres were declared out-of-bounds in Chushul alone, an area upon which some 2,000 people from 12 villages once depended. However, having pulled troops back, India and China are bolstering their defence infrastructure in other ways. "The dispute in the Himalayas is now about strategic competition between the two biggest Asian powers as much as the border's territorial value itself," it said.
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