India-China Border
India and China have already fought one border war, in 1962, and tensions flared recently after 30 Chinese soldiers pitched a tent about 12 miles into Indian-controlled territory. Rather than leave after they were spotted, they pitched more tents and erected a sign that declared, "you are in Chinese side." As Ely Ratner and Alexander Sullivan noted, China has been probing its disputed border with India "for at least the last five years," making "routine forays" across the Line of Actual Control that divides Asia's two behemoths. There are signs that tensions along the border are building into into a global contest. As Louise Watt reported, India and China are increasingly "bumping into each other" from "Africa to the Arctic" in their search for resources and new markets. Fierce as this global competition may become, if a true clash were to occur, it is most likely to be high in the Himalayas at a border that remains contested. (AP Photo)
