A Himalayan spat between China and India evokes memories of war

FOR nearly six weeks, armed contingents of two of the biggest military forces in the world have faced off in a high-altitude game of chicken in the Himalayas.

• The Economist

Roughly 300-400 Indian soldiers and an equal number of Chinese border guards are stuck glowering at one another over a scrubby patch of land at a “tri-junction”, where the two countries and the tiny kingdom of Bhutan all meet.

Analysts cannot see how either side might easily stand down.

Memories of a bloody border war fought between China and India in 1962 are all too easily…

• A Himalayan spat…