Tag Archive for: "India"
Calling the Chinese bully’s bluff

The more power China has accumulated, the more it has attempted to achieve its foreign-policy objectives with bluff, bluster, and bullying. But, as its Himalayan border standoff with India’s military continues, the limits of this …

Is a second Sino-Indian border war imminent?

The Sino-Indian standoff in the Doklam (Donglang in Chinese) region of the Himalayas where the borders of China, India and Bhutan converge is now nearly two months old. The dispute arose in mid-June when China …

Asia’s hierarchies of humiliation

Indian and Chinese troops have been locked in a standoff in Doka La—where the borders of Bhutan, China and India meet—for almost a month now, the longest such impasse between the two armies since 1962. …