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just to fight extreme weather events. the new idea taking root in some chinese cities. ah, my british manager, welcome to did up the news asia, glad you could join us. indian and chinese troops have clashed along a de facto border on india's eastern tip, resulting in injuries on both sides. india defense ministry said the clash occurred last week on friday, along the so called line of actual control or l. a. c. in the ta, long sector in india or not for the state. china claims the entire state as part of its territory. both india and china have their own perception of where the l a c, the defective border between both countries lies. it's more than 3000 kilometer disputed border that extends from anata physician,

the east turkish me in the west. the l a. c has been the scene of intense faceoff between india and china after troops of both countries engaged in deadly hand to hand fighting in an area called galvan in june 2020 the himalayan border between india and china is one of the world's hottest flashpoints. since the war between the 2 nuclear power, in 1962 has been a fragile peace along the demarcation known as the line of actual control. here people's liberation army troops faced soldiers from the indian army in an uneasy stand of a research in china as flexing its muscles in the region. there are fears this could crank up tensions with india, which is about to overtake china as the world's most populous nation. you daily wants to prove india has the military power to match its growing economic strength in both countries displays of strength in the border, dispute go down well with

a domestic audience. no. there are long standing agreements forbidding the use of firearms along the ill defined border one. when the 2 clashed in 2020 troops thought hand to hand with spears and clubs in the gall one valley of le dak. these 20 indian and 4 chinese soldiers were killed, prime minister nor end remote. he said india would stand its ground. sean, hot up, shanty dot india wants peace again, but if provoked, we are capable of giving an appropriate response. ha, ha, ha, may yet hold. the last week's incident. so up to $400.00 people's liberation. army soldiers clash with indian troops in our room. the child pradesh. china play down the tensions between the 2 countries. juveniles. yeah. the china india border areas are generally stable and the 2 sides have maintained smooth communication through diplomatic and military channels. but overall relations

between indian china remain tense. beijing is particularly upset about india's participation in the quad security dialogue, which also includes the u. s. and american allies, japan and australia, and gentlemen offer more context as job into jacob. he's a china analyst and associate professor at ship. now the university professor jacob, there has been somewhat of an uneasy calm at this disputed board for some time. what prompted this latest clash? well, let's say you know, any one's guess what, in a bunch of reasons. this is a little wind just usually, this is not a dime when the 2 sides i'm into contact i. so it clearly indicates that there is some thought we wouldn't do you know, such a clash, at least from the chinese site i, i mean, if you look at it from just the bilateral context and the context, maybe

a couple of reasons for the bilateral context. i think, you know, we've just more or less finally come to some sort of a disengagement at the section points that were generated after the 2020 classes. but there are still some larger issues. i mean, some other areas in the doc itself that are still on the, on the negotiating table, but these are long standing or what? because the legacy issues or any sort of questions that need to be sorted out. i think one of possibility here could be that the chinese are putting pressure on the new negotiators by opening up your front so that these other issues are not which you know, they have been in which i'm pretty much gone in favor of china for a while. now, the other sort of a larger regional, international context would be that the americans and the recently had

a lateral metric size in the state of iraq on which is about the state along the sea. so the claim that the, the violate the boundary agreements, which is not entirely true because the prices did not violate any of the especially losses of the to treat or the treaties between the 2 countries. in china, the chinese have been extremely concerned for a while now about the growing closeness between the indian and the american media that the americans. so a one point professor, you talked about this bilateral point and about the point of disengagement because china and india both been attempting to disengage from most part of the and us in the see for the better part of 2 years. and some disengagement has happened. but overall, it's proving problematic. does china not want to leave these positions or india claims it has occupied i think that is pretty much the message that the chinese are sending, that you know, we are in control of what we are in control. and there is no question of us in

these places, but the specific points of this engagement, i mean, these are specific points rather than last tracks of area. so those ideas, you know, the date that i am disengaged from. so clearly the message seems to be that, you know, the chinese dictating the pace of whatever happens along the sea. they come in and transgress and then when it's time for and then you know, even the negotiations to actually walk back from the transgressions are a huge pain. which makes it really, you know, which it uses up a lot of indian energy and time. and the tradition of sort of seems to be that, you know, you push in as much as you can keep the distracted and signal also that, you know, these are ways in which china's communicating to india that they have a strong pot on the sea as well. as you know, that will,

the other part that he has to deal with, and america is too far away for india to actually depend on or, or you're a control the de facto border between both countries. but just staying on the border in foreign minister shanker has said in the past of the state of the border will determine the state of the relationship with china. what does this relationship look like now after this for just incident? well, it's just that the india has to constantly be alert to new, but i knew it is you when i do this, any sense a concentrate on along the sea, you know to the story. it's been seen that the line of actually controlling the western sector. busy is much more accessible, which is a lot talk about it is much more accessible. both military in the 2nd are much to

produce that that is much harder. even if infrastructure is better on the site, i still eat quite hard for both sites to access every point. so the feeling was that this was not so easily, you know, prone to crashes and conflicts, but even saw that have been up points along the eastern sector as well. wear glasses of but this is probably the most time that i've been actually a physical injuries. and the numbers, i think what's particularly unique about the situation is the numbers of the chinese deployed in this particular operation and to place in the money on a very cold december night. for the number, the police didn't seem to suggest a fair degree of planning, a fair degree of a sort of a mission from the higher echelons on the chinese side to do something like this. i mean, we don't have that much time sort of interrupting your reference time,

but could you look in your crystal ball and think, is there something that can potentially do as a confidence building measure potentially to try and resolve the situation? i think what to suggest is that under this building measures, unilaterally from the inside have failed, i have anything. oh, what the problem is precisely though the chinese keep expecting the indians do sort of walk back or to negotiate or to come up with the next set of confidence building measures. and that jenny doesn't be taking advantage of this. anything the solution now seems to be a no, it's not at and light like responses. and that's again we're in. busy you know seems to be holding back, but for how long it will hold back it really, but he's guess we're lever bear with it. i mean, thanks so much for joining us today. a job in jacob ah, in china, some local governments are warming to the idea of building sponge cities that is building water absorbing infrastructure in cities as

a cushion against board floods and droughts. extreme weather events that china has itself experienced in recent years. a sponge park and a chinese city of non chung it's not made of sponge is it works like them. the $126.00 acre park now serves as a reservoir for the cities, excessive rain water. and when it gets to dry pipes and channels can transport water from here for plant irrigation. so the whole park is like an ecological bank chosen high or an ecological collecting against another which can collect 1000000 cubic meters of rain water from surrounding areas in extreme weather conditions. a bottle when the rain water is collected here, one of the higher parts of the city will be safe. now. i shall not. but what makes this park spongy? lays of porous volcanic rocks plus a mixture of soil and fly ash the residue of coal combustion. it's part of pages incentive to transform metropolises into so called sponge cities. landscape

architect, yukon. joan is the supervisor of the sponge park project in non chung. he believes much of the modern infrastructure in his country is being built based on ideas imported from europe, which he says ill fitted for the monsoon climate in asia. and he says, innovations are essential for sustainable future idea. responder said, it is to cover the cover give want to more space, give a river more little lucy keepers, a city more open brief, you know, be able, a city will be able to brief instead of paved out a concrete or that water gold under under panel ot pump out doing flat, so se useless say will fail. i continued to fail,

but experts say such parks cannot withstand extreme downpours which have become more frequent due to climate change. as weather events, gain intensity, such water absorbing infrastructure will be constantly put on the test to see if it can become an example for other cities. that's it for today, there's mo, from the region on our website, on the server. you can follow us on facebook and twitter the to tomorrow with secrets my behind these was discovered new adventures in 360 degrees and explore fascinating world heritage site d w world heritage is 360. get the out. now.

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