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  T hinking of India China clashing in a full blown war may run shiver down the spine of at least 2.7 billion people, but repercussion of such a war will be devastating for the entire global economy. China and India, both the civilizational states have existed side by side for millenniums, but only recently things have started to flare up quite often. Point of contention for both the nations is 3488 km long LAC (Line Of Actual Control) that runs all the way from Ladakh region of India to Arunanchal Pradesh bordering Tibet region of China. It seems both nations are adamant on holding their view on the perception of LAC and what all places it transverse from. It doesn’t surprise anyone when one gets to know that this historic problem has a British history at play in the background. China believes that the agreement reached by the British Indi was not legit as it was done with Tibet, which was the part of China and had no jurisdiction on settling borders. India on the other hand state...

  Starting from the late ninth century Kievan Rus, Russia in its contemporary borders has always been expanding with sporadic events of loosing territories. These expansions from the early years till modern day Russia has impacted a range of people from a different ethnicity and lineages. Russia since from its birth had its expanses covering areas of Ukraine, Belarus, Finland and Baltic states.  Russia like every other country has taken pride in maintaining its sovereignty and territorial integrity but rarely had the same feeling for its bordering states. Russia for last few centuries had territory under its domain roughly more than the area of Pluto, but yet never halted its ambitions to expand. East European states have more or less overlapping beliefs and languages similar to Russians but never completely identified them as Russians. Even the smaller Baltic states have always demanded to maintain their own identities separate from Russia. Be it former USSR or current ...