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Old 19th Jun 2020, 15:56
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Asturias56
 
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Originally Posted by WhatsaLizad?
Any chance it's water?
No - loads of water up there - and even more ice.

Looking at the images and reading the propaganda from both sides I suspect the river keeps changing course in a flat river valley with each ice melt. Not sure how they define the LAC but it's probably "along the line of the River Garwan" - which has several separate water courses in parallel in places. So what was the "obvious" border last year isn't this year - and that leads to "you're on our side - move on" and "the hell you say- we've been here for 10 years" and thus downwards.........

Nothing that a half decent treaty couldn't fix (see the Rio Grande as a prime example) but when you have two very large countries both absolutely convinced they are right and both appealing against "cartographic aggression" based on maps drawn by the Brits 100-200 years ago..................
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