Supporters of India's ruling Bharatiya Janata Party celebrate the government’s revocation of Kashmir's special status, in Lucknow. Photo: AP Supporters of India's ruling Bharatiya Janata Party celebrate the government’s revocation of Kashmir's special status, in Lucknow. Photo: AP
Supporters of India's ruling Bharatiya Janata Party celebrate the government’s revocation of Kashmir's special status, in Lucknow. Photo: AP
Ankit Panda
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Ankit Panda

How India’s Kashmir move complicates the border issue with China

  • Ankit Panda writes that while New Delhi’s revoking of Kashmir’s special status pleases both supporters and opposition parties, the move has opened ‘a geopolitical Pandora’s box’

Ankit Panda
Ankit Panda

Updated: 3:00pm, 10 Aug, 2019

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Supporters of India's ruling Bharatiya Janata Party celebrate the government’s revocation of Kashmir's special status, in Lucknow. Photo: AP Supporters of India's ruling Bharatiya Janata Party celebrate the government’s revocation of Kashmir's special status, in Lucknow. Photo: AP
Supporters of India's ruling Bharatiya Janata Party celebrate the government’s revocation of Kashmir's special status, in Lucknow. Photo: AP
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Ankit Panda

Ankit Panda

Ankit Panda is an Adjunct Senior Fellow in the Defense Posture Project at the Federation of American Scientists, a Senior Editor at The Diplomat, an online magazine on Asia-Pacific affairs, and a Contributing Editor at War on the Rocks. Panda is an award-winning writer and a frequently cited analyst on geopolitical and security issues in the Asia-Pacific. His writing has appeared in The Diplomat, The Atlantic, The Daily Beast, Politico Magazine, and War on the Rocks, among other publications.