India-China border talks: Four things you should know

Such practice is unacceptable and will not come into force."China later joined Pakistan in condemning India's move at the UN Security Council.Perhaps more vitally for Beijing, parts of Kashmir fall within its "Belt and Road" initiative, a massive, cross-continental infrastructure development project aimed at expanding China’s commercial connections globally.China's expansive road network crosses through Aksai Chin, a region it has held since 1950 and claimed by India as part of Ladakh.It connects the restive, Chinese-controlled provinces of Tibet and Xinjiang before snaking north of Indian-administered Kashmir and cutting down through the Pakistani-administered portion of the region towards Pakistan's Gwadar port in the Arabian Sea."China perceived the constitutional changes in Jammu and Kashmir as a threat" to Chinese interests in the region, specifically infrastructure projects linking China with Pakistan through Kashmiri territories controlled by Pakistan, said Lt Gen Vinod Bhatia, India's director-general for military operations from 2012 to 2014.He said calls by India's powerful home minister and other leaders of Prime Minister Narendra Modi's Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party for the "liberation" of Aksai Chin further provoked China's "aggressive behaviour".A growing strategic alliance between India and the United States has ruffled feathers in Beijing, which sees the relationship as an attempt to block its rise to power.Now, the India-China conflict threatens to exacerbate tensions between China and the US.