Experts say India’s role as a counterweight to China is far from over, despite Donald Trump’s convivial outreach to Xi Jinping. India’s bet on AI-enabled warships needs boost to counter ...
Karishma Vaswani is a Bloomberg Opinion columnist covering Asia politics with a special focus on China. Previously, she was ...
Flights were interrupted by COVID-19 restrictions, and a clash high in the Himalayas kept them grounded after they were ...
The chief of the Indian army this week said that India is not yet looking to reduce troops at the India-China border in the winter season. The comment comes days after both countries agreed on six ...
A border clash could inflict dozens of casualties, jolt global markets, hurt regional economic growth, and undermine cooperative China-India efforts on regional and global issues of concern to the ...
India and China fought a war over their border in 1962. As its name suggests, it divides the areas of physical control rather than territorial claims. According to India, the de facto border is ...
China, meanwhile, is exploiting any strategic openings despite scaling back its Belt and Road infrastructure push, and despite resolving a four-year border standoff with India in October.
The logic behind such a conclusion is rather straightforward: India doesn’t have the material power to balance China, balancing China could provoke more confrontations on the border or elsewhere ...
For all this "dam for a dam" water war, relations between the two nations along their disputed Himalayan border are not currently at boiling point. In recent years, there have been skirmishes between ...
India and China share a poorly demarcated border which runs along the Himalayas and has been a source of tension between the neighbours for decades, including a brief but bloody war in 1962.
Both India and China maintain a significant military presence along their 2,100-mile (3,379-kilometer) de facto border, known as the Line of Actual Control (LAC), which has never been clearly ...