中印舉行第18輪邊界談判

India and China began an 18th round of border talks in New Delhi Monday in an effort to resolve a longstanding territorial dispute.

The talks about the Line of Actual Control are the first since Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi came into office last year.

The two countries have long been embroiled in the bitter territorial dispute. Small incursions occur frequently across the Line of Actual Control; the de-facto border that runs 4,000 kilometers across the Himalayas and involves large swathes of remote territory.

China claims around 90,000 square kilometers of land in the eastern Himalayas, which India disputes. A good portion of the land is the Indian state of Arunachal Pradesh.

Last year, India and China resolved a tense, two-week military standoff in the region.

The border dispute led to a brief war between Asia's largest countries in 1962.印度和中國星期一開始在新德里舉行第18輪邊界談判，爭取解決長期以來的領土爭端。

自印度總理莫迪去年就任以來，這是中印兩國首次就實際控制線問題展開談判。

長期以來，中國和印度一直存在激烈的領土爭端。沿實際控制線一帶，雙方經常發生小規模衝突。中印之間的實際邊界穿越喜馬拉雅山脈，長達四千公里，包括大片荒無人煙的地區。

中國宣稱對喜馬拉雅山脈東側的約九萬平方公里土地擁有主權，但印度對此持有異議。這片土地的相當一部分是印度的阿魯納恰爾邦。

去年，印度和中國結束了在該地區持續兩週的緊張對峙。

1962年，中印邊界爭端導致這兩個亞洲最大國家之間爆發了一場短暫的戰爭。