<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <!DOCTYPE article PUBLIC "-//NLM//DTD JATS (Z39.96) Journal Publishing DTD v1.2d1 20170631//EN" "JATS-journalpublishing1.dtd"> <ArticleSet> <Article> <Journal> <PublisherName>ejsss</PublisherName> <JournalTitle>ELECTRONIC JOURNAL OF SOCIAL AND STRATEGIC STUDIES</JournalTitle> <PISSN/> <EISSN/> <Volume-Issue>Volume 5 Issue 2</Volume-Issue> <PartNumber/> <IssueTopic>Multidisciplinary</IssueTopic> <IssueLanguage>English</IssueLanguage> <Season>August-September 2024</Season> <SpecialIssue>N</SpecialIssue> <SupplementaryIssue>N</SupplementaryIssue> <IssueOA>Y</IssueOA> <PubDate> <Year>2024</Year> <Month>09</Month> <Day>30</Day> </PubDate> <ArticleType>Strategic Studies</ArticleType> <ArticleTitle>China’s aggressive tactics: A comparative analysis of the South China Sea Conflict and the Sino-India Border Dispute in Eastern Ladakh</ArticleTitle> <SubTitle/> <ArticleLanguage>English</ArticleLanguage> <ArticleOA>Y</ArticleOA> <FirstPage>114</FirstPage> <LastPage>130</LastPage> <AuthorList> <Author> <FirstName>Tsultim</FirstName> <LastName>Zangmo</LastName> <AuthorLanguage>English</AuthorLanguage> <Affiliation/> <CorrespondingAuthor>N</CorrespondingAuthor> <ORCID/> </Author> </AuthorList> <DOI>10.47362/EJSSS.2024.5201</DOI> <Abstract>Conflicts, confrontations, and disputes have long been a part of international relations. Which often includes skirmishes and their consequences being the reality of states unable to find peaceful resolutions to their disputes to which the entire world pays attention. The complex nature of international relations lies more in the differences and contradictions in foreign policy. These materialize as security dilemmas, which arise due to high stakes, mutual distrust, and policy overreactions. Such a security dilemma persists between China and its neighboring states and the rest of the world due to its aggressive, coercive, and adversarial tactics and ambitions. This paper assesses the situation in the South China Sea and Eastern Ladakh following the Chinese occupation of several areas across the Line of Actual Control (LAC) in 2020 and China’s stretching muscles in South China’s Sea. The expansionist policy of China led to an incident a Galwan River Valley and the South China Sea, resulting in the deaths of both sides. This study outlines the course of events and do a comparative analysis of conflict occurred in Eastern Ladakh and South China Sea and its impact, where negotiations were partially successful and seemed deadlocked in achieving the status quo. This paper seeks to examine the larger border game, challenges for future political diplomacy, and recommendations for the future course of action.</Abstract> <AbstractLanguage>English</AbstractLanguage> <Keywords>Border dispute,South China Sea,Sino-India,Expansionist policy,Eastern Ladakh,LAC</Keywords> <URLs> <Abstract>https://www.ejsss.net.in/ubijournal-v1copy/journals/abstract.php?article_id=15383&title=China’s aggressive tactics: A comparative analysis of the South China Sea Conflict and the Sino-India Border Dispute in Eastern Ladakh</Abstract> </URLs> <References> <ReferencesarticleTitle>References</ReferencesarticleTitle> <ReferencesfirstPage>16</ReferencesfirstPage> <ReferenceslastPage>19</ReferenceslastPage> <References>Al Jazeera and news agencies. (2024, April 07). China holds ‘combat patrol’ in South China Sea amid US-led war games. Aljazeera. 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