![]() Recently, the Indian and Chinese forces faced each other across the Line of Actual Control (LAC) which is 2,521-mile long border between five Indian states and Tibet. However after the last serious clash between the two sides in Arunachal Pradesh in 1988, the then Indian PM Rajiv Gandhi met Chinese leader Deng Xiaoping, in Beijing and series of border management agreements took place between both sides in 1993, 19 and relative calm prevailed till the stand off in Doklam in 2017. This border conflict turned into a full war that lead to serious defeat and humiliation for India – often remembered as the Himalayan Blunder in Indian strategic circles – borrowing from the title of book, “Himalayan Blunder” by Indian army officer, Brigadier John Dalvi, published in 1968. ![]() What does China really spend on its military? CSIS Reportīackground of India-China standoff in LadakhĬhina-India relations had never fully recovered from a 1962 war in which Chinese troops seized territory from India on their Himalayan border.
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