China-India Border Faceoff Turns Violent

China’s increasingly aggressive military policy meets Indian assertiveness

By: Neeta Lal

Thousands of Indian and Chinese soldiers are locked in a tense confrontation in eastern Ladakh following a skirmish in which 250 Chinese and Indian soldiers went at each other using iron rods, sticks, and stones along the de facto border between the two countries.

The disputed India-China Line of Actual Control covers the 3,488-km-long orde…