About the Book: Understanding the IndiaChina Border: The Enduring Threat of War
in High Himalayas
In the summer of 2020, China and India came close to war. The nuclear-armed
adversaries both amassed troops and equipment along their disputed border in
eastern Ladakh. The two sides slugged it out with fists, stones and clubs next
to a fast-flowing Himalayan stream, resulting in dozens of deaths and injuries,
many from hypothermia. The entire 4,000-kilometre Sino-Indian boundary is
disputed. In 1962, the two countries fought a short and vicious war that went
badly for India, and from which Nehru never recovered. The border, called the
Line of Actual Control,