ChinaandAND⤬THE JUNCTION
2 SHARED EVENTSIndia

Entangled histories

2 events in which either nation’s sourced chronicle names the other — including under earlier names of the same state. Each is the same record, with the same sources, as on its own chronicle; nothing here was written for this page.

ONE SPINE OF YEARS · TWO WALLS OF EVENTS · CHN LEFT · IND RIGHT

1. c. 138 BCE

   Silk Road trade routes open under Emperor Wu

   Emperor Wu's campaigns against the Xiongnu and missions into Central Asia open the overland Silk Road, linking China to India, Persia, and the Mediterranean in exchange of goods and ideas.

   Economy & Trade · from the China chronicle · Imperial Unification: Qin and Han · REFS 2 — Han dynasty (206 BCE-220 CE), Teaching China with the Smithsonian, Han Dynasty (206 B.C.-220 A.D.)

2. 2 Jul 1972

   Simla Agreement and the Line of Control

   Indira Gandhi and Zulfikar Ali Bhutto agreed that in Jammu and Kashmir the line of control resulting from the ceasefire of 17 December 1971 'shall be respected by both sides without prejudice to the recognized position of either side'. Each government maintains its own claim to the whole of the former princely state, whose parts are administered by India, Pakistan and China.

   Politics & Power · from the India chronicle · Independence, Partition and the Modern Republic · REFS 1 — Simla Agreement, 2 July 1972