Ruth Pollard, Columnist

China and India Relations Shouldn't Be Allowed to Sink Any Lower

There's no foolproof formula for dealing with Beijing's renewed assertiveness across Asia. New Delhi is learning the hard way.

October 11, 2021 at 10:30 PM UTC

By Ruth Pollard

Ruth Pollard is a Bloomberg Opinion Managing Editor. Previously she was South and Southeast Asia government team leader at Bloomberg News and Middle East correspondent for the Sydney Morning Herald.

Indian troops near the disputed border with China in early September.
Photographer: Yawar Nazir/Getty Images AsiaPac

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It’s going to be another long winter for the soldiers deployed along China and India’s disputed Himalayan border.

Thirteen rounds of high-level military talks aimed at easing tensions between the two neighbors have achieved very little, and neither side is now bothering to hide their frostiness. The standoff — which at times has exploded into deadly clashes along the 2,167-mile un-demarcated border — is now in its 17th month.