Date: 18/12/2020
MAKE EAST PUNJAB, A BUFFER STATE
Any future war between India and Pakistan will be a great tragedy for the entire mankind, especially if nuclear weapons are used.
Will it not be wise to create Buffer Zones, one between Bharat and Pakistan and the other between Bharat and China. I am thinking of EAST PUNJAB and TIBET.
Please read below the definition, need and use of Buffer Zones around the world.
According to Oxford Dictionary of the English Language, a buffer state is a small neutral country situated between two larger hostile countries and serving to prevent the outbreak of regional conflict.
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en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buffer_state
A buffer state is a country lying between two rival or potentially hostile greater powers.Its existence can sometimes be thought to prevent conflict between them. A buffer state is sometimes a mutually agreed upon area lying between two greater powers, which is demilitarized in the sense of not hosting the military of either power (though it will usually have its own military forces).
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Oxford Dictionaries:
buffer state, noun.
a small neutral country situated between two larger hostile countries and serving to prevent the outbreak of regional conflict.
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The Indian barrier state or buffer state was a British proposal to establish a Native American state in the portion of the Great Lakes region of North America west of the Appalachian Mountains, and bounded by the Ohio and Mississippi rivers and the Great Lakes. The concept of establishing such a state, first conceived in the late 1750s, was part of a long-term plan to reconcile the Indian tribes to British rule and diminish hostilities between the tribes and the British Army following its victor
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Tibet was a buffer between czarist Russia, the British India, and Qing China in the early 20th century. Mongolia, between the People's Republic of China and Russia. North Korea during and after the Cold War, seen by some analysts as a buffer state between the military forces of the People’s Republic of China and South Korea backed by the United States.
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defence.pk/pdf/threads/tibet-buffer-state.65442
British forces invaded Tibet in 1904 and administered it until 1947. Their aim was to create what they self-consciously called a buffer state to protect their immense interests in India, then run by the British Raj, from potential advances by Russia and China. Tibet was turned into a guard dog for Britain s vast Indian Empire.
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Afghanistan was a buffer state between the British Empire (which ruled much of South Asia) and the Russian Empire (which ruled much of Central Asia) during the Anglo–Russian conflicts in Asia during the 19th century, with the Wakhan Corridor later extending the buffer eastwards to the Chinese border.
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SIAM (between the British Colonial Empire in south Asia and French Indochina)
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The colony of Georgia (separating Spanish-controlled Florida from the British-controlled American colonies), were other notable examples of buffer states during the colonial era.
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The buffer state must be considerably weaker than the surrounding states.
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Buffer state is a country between to competing regions. The buffer states in Asia are: Mongolia, North Korea, Sultanate of Aceh, Siam, Far Eastern Republic, Afghanistan, Tibet, and the Himalayans....
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geography.name/buffer-states
A buffer state is a relatively weak state lying between two or more antagonistic powers of comparable potential. Conditions for Buffer State Status. The geographical condition seems paramount. The buffer state must be in contact with the territory of the other powers and must separate them. However, this separation may not be complete.
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Among the most important and long lasting are: the buffer zone separating North and South Korea since 1953 and the Cypriot demilitarized zone established in 1974 between the territory under Turkish control and the rest of the island.
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Saudis seek buffer zone with Yemen in return for ceasefire ...
www.msn.com/en-us/middleeast/middleeast-top...
Riyadh has demanded more security assurances from the Houthis, including a buffer zone along the borders with northern Yemen until a U.N.-backed transitional government is formed, the sources said....
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WHAT WILL BE THE ADVANTAGES (and disadvantages) OF MAKING EAST PUNJAB A SOVEREIGN STATE AND MAKING IT BUFFER ZONE BETWEEN INDIA AND PAKISTAN? PUNJABIS ARE NOT ALIENS LIKE THE PAKISTANIS AND THE CHINESE!
Even in real life when children grow up and start their own families, they are encouraged to move out and live on their own independently. Has time come for East Punjab to stand on own feet?
Kindly discuss dispassionately. (Please be factual, objective, rational and brave, keeping emotions & fears OUT!)
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18 December 2020
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