'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......

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......

Why 2017 is not 1962

The bogey of the 1962 defeat must be laid to rest with a finality that is unquestionable.The myth of Chinese invincibility is a tall tale that belongs to an era gone by, argues Vivek Gumaste.......