18 January 2012

Editorial: India, China in Border Deal


By Rajeev Sharma

India and China took a major confidence building step on Tuesday, setting up an institutionalized border mechanism that allows for real time contact between the two countries’ foreign offices in the event of a border intrusion by either side. 

The Working Mechanism for Consultation and Coordination on India-China Border Affairs is the first major bilateral document signed in two decades by the two Asian giants, who fought a war in 1962 and who since then have regularly complained about incursions into each other’s territory by the other.

Read the full story at The Diplomat