India-China Border Dispute: Silk Route to Tawang | McMahon Line, 1962, Galwan | Kissa Ep 186

In 648, a Chinese envoy travelling to the court of King Harshavardhana was ambushed in north India. He escaped across the Himalayas to Tibet and came back with an army of Tibetan and Nepali soldiers. In those days India and China had no border at all; Tibet lay between them. Today Tibet is under Chinese control, the two countries share a boundary of about 3,500 km that they have never agreed on, Beijing calls Arunachal Pradesh "South Tibet" and keeps issuing Chinese names for its places, and in 2026 Indian and Chinese troops stood face to face in Arunachal even as Xi Jinping visited New Delhi. How did a red line drawn by a British officer in 1914 become the root of the dispute? How did a Major of the Assam Rifles bring Tawang under India without firing a shot? Why did the Dalai Lama flee Lhasa disguised as a soldier, and who threw tomatoes at Mao's portrait in Bombay? What did a Brigadier hear before his brigade was overrun in 1962, why did India turn down "Mao's smile", and what are the Pangong Tso "fingers"? And what did the ITBP chief say about Arunachal that led to his video being taken down? In this episode of Kissa, Bhupendra Soni tells the full story of the India-China border dispute: from the Silk Route and Zorawar Singh's Tibet campaign to the Simla Convention and the McMahon Line, Panchsheel, the Dalai Lama and the Panchen Lama, the 1962 war as told in Brigadier John Dalvi's "Himalayan Blunder", the clashes from Nathu La to Galwan, China's border villages and infrastructure, the renaming of places in Arunachal and the question of the next Dalai Lama. It ends with a fact-based answer to one question: has China entered Indian territory? Also watch: Why is China afraid of the Dalai Lama? | Kissa E27    • Dalai Lama से क्यों डरता है China? अगले दल...   Chapters: 00:00 Intro: The envoy who came back with an army 04:14 Neighbours without a border 07:50 The British red line 10:59 A knock on the snow 13:15 Hindi-Chini Bhai-Bhai 15:59 The Dalai Lama 25:04 Himalayan Blunder 30:18 After Nehru 38:37 Galwan 45:07 Arunachal, 2026 48:43 The next Dalai Lama 52:44 Names on the map, villages on the ground 59:13 So, has China entered India? 1:01:00 The price of the border Host: Bhupendra Soni Script & Research: Mayank Video Editor: Sandeep Narayan, Rahul Pal Camera: Taufeeq Ansari Production: Divya Garg, Priyanshu Ranjan Thumbnail: Ratnesh Chaudhary #IndiaChinaBorder #LAC #Kissa #Khabargaon====================================================== Khabargaon is a modern-day digital platform that helps you travel through current affairs, explainers, ground reports, interviews and unique video shows. Stay tuned for more and more! Khabargaon holds the copyright to this video. Use by others is not allowed without written consent. For permission, email digital@khabargaon.com Website: https://khabargaon.com/ Subscribe to our channel and turn on notifications to get the latest:    / @khabargaon   Connect us on Facebook:   / khabargaon   Instagram:   / khabargaon   Twitter: https://x.com/khabar_gaon WhatsApp: https://whatsapp.com/channel/0029Vatc...