a few hundred acres

It started with a few metres in some cases and has been going on at multiple fronts.
Perhaps PRC needs to stop expecting people to forget the past and start noticing how they contradict their own self.
The tensions have been created by PRC's "an inch a day" tactics, which I honestly see as nothing more than petty (and I am saying this, knowing full well than PRC would want to call India "petty", to help them get more fake points).

For Nepal

And if it really was just about a "few hundred acres" and PRC really worked with a Socialist philosophy, then they would:
a) Not really need to worry about Nepal (a pretty small country with hardly any military power) being any sort of a threat that would require putting effort to take a small amount of land. b) Consider how the small amount of land would hardly make a difference to the people of China, while it would make a big difference to a country with was lesser land than China.

And that is where the inconsistency I talk about, comes in place.

Nepal is an otherwise docile country and I am pretty confident they would have been happy to have partial open borders with some kind of trade treaties in that area.

As such, while you try to play it down by calling it "contentious", Nepal was trying to hide any such transfer or annexation, fearing what exactly? If it were really fairly claimed, there wouldn't be a real reason for that, no?

developmental terms

No, I am not at all calling China's capabilities low in terms of creating a war machine.

I am talking in terms of how quality of life has been affected by either of them in places which both countries are calling as their own (see my points in the above comment). While China tries to call Arunachal Pradesh and parts of J&K and its people as under itself, India is what sends the disaster relief resources, whereas China considers blocking natural resources to try and increase discontent of the people living in those areas.

China took longer than India to even admit the increasing air-quality problems in high pollution states,^[although for both countries, the actual metrics being used to report them hardly align with actual types of pollutants and the mitigations in response have been "too little too late" for both] which shows me that the govt. doesn't like admitting facts. And personally, I am fine working with people who fail a lot, as long as they are consistent in communication and don't try mixing lies into reports. Because trustability is an important part of any relationship, which also applies to governments.^[The main reasons I give flak to US govt and organisations is due to their lack of consistency, which makes them very less trustworthy.]

And I am not even going to point out the actual quality of buildings that you might have been a part of your metrics, simply because I expect enough people to have pointed those (and other similar conditions out to you).
While Indian buildings aren't particularly great either, I am in a 10+ year old building which was not designed for earthquakes and has still not cracked (much less collapsed into a death trap) despite multiple of those.

Then comes the destruction of values over the years. China has had a rich culture of thousands of years and any such civilisation develops values and traditions that are conductive to longevity.
But the recent values shown by adults (not even children) from China has indicated an erosion of older values that were developed over the centuries in China. This is not something that happens easily without intervention from higher powers (and I am inclined to think it was the govt, unless you know of any other power that might have to gain from activities that cause this side-effect).
While there has been quite a lot of food adulteration problems in India, there are some lines that people would not cross. Specially the working class (who actually care about values unlike the business class) would never. But the normal people that seem to come out of China to set examples, don't seem to be doing any good for its reputation.

What if you get the furnace to be puked out of Eru Ilúvatar's mouth?

I understand that that is not what Socialism actually means.
People who thought of the system weren't idiots.

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Nepal

Why did the British not colonise Nepal

Detaining citizen in Shanghai, if it's Chinese citizen, why need VISA? If it's an Indian citizen, why detain?

Forget British, forget military occupation. What decides who is worthy of controlling a place?
I believe, one that is there during hard times 2 3. PDF

And considering how China tried to cut off downstream from Tsang Po, even if I were to assume China controlled all of Indian territory, that act doesn't make Chinese government particularly desirable. And if we consider that China doesn't control said territory, then that makes China a bad neighbour at best and an incompetent governor at worst.

See, I am not very patriotic. I am fine with whatever the name of my country is. But the difference between how the land resources are controlled and distributed over the years, make me seem like China will end up being a worse Central Govt. than India (which isn't particularly great already), for the given territory.

That shouldn't be the case, sure you can find some other volcano on the planet, no?
Oh right, perhaps there were no Geologists among the Elves/Dwarves. Were they not?

I'm pretty sure that won't be the case.
Their real intent won't be to enforce it on self-installable systems, but more like, to enable companies to make that thing mandatory on systems that they sell.
And since the companies want to do so, they will use it to create a "verification" system that helps them feed people's everyday face data to AI, to enable doing studies on people's face changes depending upon various stimuli that said companies will be collectively applying to those people.

e.g.

• if you have a period and it is showing on your face, then the next time you need to pick up your phone, the AI will know you have one.
• you got a tattoo anywhere visible, now they know that
• they know the rate at which your facial hair grows and how much you get it cut, so when you open your phone after shaving/trimming/salon-stuff, the company now has that in its database

This is corresponding to PayPal et al. starting with requiring a selfie to "verify" that it's you.
Well guess what happens when one of those AI companies gets an order from someone that wants to systematically frame you for paying for something illegal via PayPal? They get the highest quality AI selfie generated such that even your mother won't know it isn't you.
Oh and don't go on saying they won't want to do that. Cell Phone service providers will make fake claims of their customers having activated VAS, just for a few extra pennies a month (this is already happening, even without AI).

and the working classes control the state

I find it hard to believe that the majority of the working class people consider territorial expansion to be good for anyone in this age.