evidence: China controls a 38,000-square-kilometre section known as the Aksai Chin, which India claims as part of Ladakh. [...] "China continues to control Aksai Chin and India continues to claim Aksai Chin — whether it is part of Jammu and Kashmir or [a] union territory, I don't think it makes any real difference," he said. [...] Mr Hooda said he believed the Indian Government would only use Aksai Chin as a bargaining chip in their negotiations with China over other land disputes, importantly Arunachal Pradesh in India's north-east, which Beijing claims as its own.