In early March, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi inaugurated the Sela Tunnel in Arunachal Pradesh in India’s northeast, close to the Sino-Indian border. The tunnel is one of the critical projects constructed by the Border Roads Organization of the Indian Ministry of Defence. According to a Ministry of Defence press release, the tunnel, constructed at … Read more
On January 11, China announced an 80 billion yuan ($11.2 billion) investment to boost key infrastructure such as airports, railways, and highways in Tibet Autonomous Region (TAR) by the year 2035. This was disclosed through a government work report released after the second meeting of the 12th People’s Congress of the Autonomous Region.. Besides China’s … Read more
2023 was a year of disappointed expectations in China-India relations. The long-expected thaw between the two sides did not materialize and the standoff on their disputed border, which began when a violent military crisis erupted in 2020, continued. Nevertheless, 2023 saw some stabilization in relations, which offers promise for the future. Not only did the … Read more
Advertisement India and China have been locked in a heightened state of tension since the border conflict flared up in May 2020. The two militaries have yet to disengage fully. In fact, there has been disengagement of forces only in a few places along the Line of Actual Control (LAC). Multiple rounds of military and … Read more
Advertisement The number of Sino-Indian border escalations in the past decade has outnumbered those that occurred in the five decades after the 1962 border war. These recent escalations shattered the stability that both sides had achieved through agreements signed in 1993, 1996, and 2005. The unresolved border disputes, the rise of nationalist leaders in both … Read more