What a neighbour ! From Russia to Cambodia, China has border issues with many .

Not just India, China claims 20 different areas of different countries including Russia and Japan.  Somewhere China claims marine areas  ,somewhere area of lands , even somewhere a river that other nation own  .  In the 1940s, China occupied neighboring East Turkestan and made Xinjiang a province. It  occupied Tibet in 1950.

                           Cradit : third party image source

China has been accused of occupying several islands in the South China Sea and setting up military bases violating the international law (the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea).  Even the United States is active in thwarting Beijing's attempts to establish a monopoly in the South China Sea.

 The government of China (then the Republic of China) during the presidency of Qingdao Kai-shek, the leader of the Kuomintang party, published a map of the South China Sea surrounded by 11 small lines.  According to China, the part surrounded by this line is theirs.

 

 The head of the submarine mountains, the coral reef and the islands in 'the Eleventh Dash Line' are collectively named ' the Map of South China Sea Islands'.  These included Paracel Islands, Spratly Islands, McClesfield Bank and Scarborough Shoal.

 

 Two years later, the Communist Party came to power in China.  But Mao Zedong's "People's Republic of China" continues to follow the same map. After  China's handover of the Gulf of Tonkin to Vietnam in the 1950s this eleven dash line  turned into nine Dash Line.

 In 1974, the People's Liberation Army launched a surprise operation to remove Vietnamese troops from the Paracel Islands.  A few years later china occupied several other islands including Spratly Islands .  In 2009, China submitted the map to the United Nations to establish its claim. 

 Let's see which countries have border issues with China.

•  Brunei: Brunei has protested the Chinese occupation of the southeastern part of the Spratly Islands.  Beijing has a long history of keeping an eye on the two islands, including Louisa Reef, which is controlled by Brunei in the region.
• Philippines: The Philippines began extracting oil and natural gas from the seabed adjacent to Calayan Island in Spratly in the 1970s.  The island is part of the Philippines under international law.  But Manila has been forced to stop work more than once due to threats from Beijing.
• Malaysia: Five islands in the South China Sea are under Malaysian control.  But Beijing is not ready to accept their claim .
• Singapore: The US naval base in one of the richest countries in Southeast Asia like Singapore , is also an another cause of China's aggression there.
•  Cambodia: Beijing's influence in Cambodia began after the pro-China Khmer Rouge party seized power in 1975.  But the notorious Paul Pot's era did not last more than three years. Although there is no direct border with China, Beijing has repeatedly intervened over the Thailand-Cambodia border issue.
•  Thailand: China is accused of making a dam on Mekong (Langsang) river of violating international water sharing policy.  There are also disputes over several islands of Thailand in the South China Sea.
•  Japan: Beijing has long claimed ownership of Japan's Senkaku and Dieu islands in the East China Sea.
•  Indonesia: China objects to the collection of fish and other biological resources by Indonesian ships in international waters in parts of the South China Sea and Natuna Island that is owned by Indonesia .
•  Laos: China claims several areas, including the northern Laotian region, as part of its Unan province.
•  Vietnam : China also have disputes over various areas in Vietnam , including the South China Sea, since the 1970s.  The Chinese army invaded Vietnam in 1969.  About 30,000 Vietnamese fighters and an equal number of Chinese soldiers died in the three-and-a-half-month war.
•  Nepal: A recent leaked report from the Nepalese government alleges that China has seized the country's land in at least 12 places along the northern and central borders.  Besides building roads, small dams were built to divert the course of the river.
•  Taiwan: Despite opposition from China, Taiwan has not yet gained international recognition as a member of the United Nations and as an "independent state."  Beijing claims the whole of the member state of the International Olympic Committee, Chinese Taipei.
•  North Korea: Despite long-standing disputes over the Paktu Mountains, Yalu and Tuman rivers, the Kim Jong Un government, under international pressure, does not openly oppose China.
•  South Korea: The beginning of bad relations dates back to China's involvement in the Korean War in the 1950s.  Tensions between the two countries over a special economic zone in the East China Sea are still high.
•  Mongolia: Beijing considers it as a "buffer country" between Russia and China.  Their example in this case is the expansion of the Ian Empire in the thirteenth century.
•  Bhutan: In the eighties, China occupied the highest peak of Bhutan, Kula Kangri and adjoining areas.  Beijing also has an eye on the Ginkgoi Fuensam peak and the Zipmochi area near Doklam.
•  Tajikistan: The 150-year-old border dispute was maintained even during the Soviet era.  There have also been allegations of infiltration of the Red Army at the border more than once.
•  Kazakhstan: Another Muslim republic of the former Soviet Union, China, claims about 34,000 square kilometers of Kazakhstan.
•  Kyrgyzstan: Chinek claims that the entire Muslim republic, which is historically part of the former Soviet republic, is part of them.
•  Russia: Conflict between two powerful countries is over an area of ​​about 160,000 square kilometers.  The two countries also had military conflicts in 1929 and 1959.  At least 600 People's Liberation Army (PLA) soldiers and 100 Russian soldiers were killed in border clashes in the era of Soviet President Brezhnev and Chinese Chairman Mao.