BHUTAN’S STRATEGY TO OVERCOME THE BORDER CONFLICT BETWEEN INDIA AND CHINA
Abstract
The development of international politics turned out to be
inseparable from conflict, both inter-state conflict or domestic
conflict known as civil war. In general, conflicts occur as a result of
the failure of the parties to conflict in reaching a decision that can
meet the interests of all parties (win-win solution or due to
aggressive attitude towards the other party. The conflict between
India and China which then involved Bhutan as a country bordering
the two countries.
In this study the author will analyze further about the form of
Bhutan's strategy in the border conflicts between China and India in
2017. In this study the authors used several approaches, each conflict
theory and the concept of coercive diplomacy. While the research
methodology used is descriptive qualitative with secondary data
collection techniques.
From the discussion it can be seen that Bhutan's strategy in the
border conflict between China and India in 2017 was to follow up
the conflict seriously through coercive diplomacy, namely to ask the
Chinese and Indians to end the conflict through negotiations by
putting forward efforts to defend national sovereignty and maintain
neutrality not to support China or India in the ultimatume
framework, namely the form of Bhutan's coercive diplomacy by
making the issue of China and India conflict as a national and
regional issue, tacit ultimatum, namely the form of Bhutan's coercive
diplomacy by making the conflict a form of foreign policy, gradual
turning of the scree, Bhutan's coercive diplomacy by making conflict
as learning so that similar problems, such as the India-China do not
happen again.