Border Brinkmanship

While the country’s attention has been focused on the struggle to contain the COVID-19 virus, incidents on the India-China border have thrown the more familiar challenge of safeguarding our extended frontiers. On May 5 and 9, there were clashes between Indian and Chinese patrols in the Sikkim and Ladakh sectors respectively, which fortunately did not go beyond fisticuffs and pushing and shoving. They