An excellent article by S Gurumurthy comparing the Kashmir issue in India with similar issue in China. I still couldn't understand why when we were in a strong position in 1965 war and won the 1971 war , we intentionally agreed for the LOC. It should have got resolved long back. Worst of all, we still have not improved out Foreign policy. Look at Bangladesh and Nepal, they are slowly turning against us.
The reason is that China prevented Xinjiang, its Kashmir, from becoming an international issue like India’s Kashmir. Xinjiang, which had a majority of Turkish Muslims (Uighurs) in 1949, had a short-lived state of East Turkestan. China invaded it, crushed it, and won back its territory. The name Xinjiang literally means ‘old frontier returns to China’. See the contrast. A year earlier, in 1948, India almost won back most of Kashmir from Pakistan which had invaded it, but voluntarily offered and turned it into an international issue. It was India, not Pakistan, which went to the United Nations; made it an international issue. It is struggling to say it is a bilateral one. Now, on to how China handled Xinjiang, its Kashmir, and integrated it with mainland China.