A far more formidable challenge will be resolving the dispute over the countries’ Himalayan frontier – the world’s longest unsettled land border. Indeed, “special representatives” from the two countries have already met 17 times to settle the issue, but have made precious little progress, not least because of Chinese concerns about the restive border provinces of Tibet and Xinjiang.
更严峻的挑战是解决两国在喜马拉雅山区的边境纠纷——这也是世界上最长的未定国界。事实上，两国的“特别代表”已就该问题进行了17次会晤，但几无进展，原因就在于中国担心其桀骜难驯的西藏和新疆等边境省份的问题。