Much has been said and written about the unending dispute over the India-China land border. Often the discussion loses track in the nitty-gritty of the Line of Actual Control (LAC). The result is that we miss a critical fact: the dispute is not resolved because Beijing doesn’t want to resolve it. Nothing else explains the … Read more
Not all’s well in China even as it steps up military aggression against India along the Line of Actual Control in the Ladakh region, leaving 20 Indian soldiers dead. The surge in unemployment and the possibility that the country’s much-hyped debt diplomacy could backfire due to the acute economic recession have led to rising uncertainty … Read more
The last 100 hours have been quite eventful as far as the face-off between India and China in Ladakh is concerned. But, even as the governments and armies of both the countries continue to have talks to end the stand-off, there’s another nation — Pakistan — unduly getting a lot more excited at the turn … Read more