evidence: Keeping up with the rhetoric around Kashmir, India’s Home Minister Amit Shah went a step further. He said that Aksai Chin is a territory of India that India lost to China in the 1962 war, and vowed to take Aksai Chin back from China. This was an explicit threat to China coming from the top echelons of power in India. This irritated Chinese leadership, and thus they trespassed into the Ladakh region of India to pre-empt any adventurism by India in Aksai Chin. While India did not have any plans of invading Aksai Chin, Amit Shah’s statement proved to be a serious miscalculation. [...] After seemingly getting outmaneuvered by China on the "Line of Actual Control" – the name given to the blurry Sino-India border – and receiving a cold shoulder from the U.S., India on the backfoot. India failed to correctly predict China’s reaction to its moves in Kashmir last year. Now, India is left with a situation where its geo-strategic influence in the Ladakh region near the Karakorum Pass has reduced. India can no longer threaten Pakistan by blocking the passage of CPEC in Kashmir, and its claim on Aksai Chin has also weakened in the aftermath of the border misadventure with China.