'PLA was acting with higher approval'

'Given the way in which the PLA operates today, I don't believe local commanders were necessarily acting without approval of higher levels.''They were acting in a way which they believed they were......

'India has deployed troops in a third country for the first time to challenge China'

'This is potentially escalatory, as China does not believe that India has any basis for interfering in a bilateral dispute between China and one of its neighbours.' M Taylor Fravel, an expert on......

China using border row to block aid to India

A new twist has been introduced into the vexed land border dispute between India and China, with the latter trying to block a $2.9 billion Asian Development Bank loan to India on the grounds that......

PLA accelerates fortification of Indian border: Report

In the wake of border clashes along the Sino-Indian border, but harking back well before that, the People's Liberation Army's (PLA) has been bolstering its defensive networks along the undemarcated......