China and India have not fired a single bullet along their disputed border for decades. Can that change?
When soldiers from the world’s two most populous countries, which together spend more than $300 billion on their military every year, clash, one might expect bloodshed.
Yet, there are growing concerns that recent tensions between the militaries of China and India, along what’s known as the Line of Actual Control , will lead to a bloody fight. Small-scale clashes have not been unusual since 1962, when the two sides fought the Himalayan war over territorial integrity. Since then, Beijing and New Delhi have signed a number of agreements to avert any major escalation.
“For anyone who was under any illusions that Chinese aggression was only rhetorical, I think they need to speak to India,” sheLast year, New Delhi revoked the autonomous status of the part of Kashmir under its control. India-administered Kashmir is the only Muslim-majority region in India and is claimed by China’s staunch ally, Pakistan.
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