IN-DEPTH: India’s Deployment of 10,000 Troops on Dormant Stretch of Tibet Border Signals Increased Tension with China

NEW DELHI—India’s deployment of 10,000 soldiers on the border with China in its Himalayan states of Himachal Pradesh and Uttarakhand indicates that border relations between the two nuclear-armed giants are deteriorating and unlikely to improve soon, strategic experts say. “There’s absolutely no trust; the Indians cannot trust the Chinese. So we have to see this in the larger perspective, that the relationship has not improved. I don’t see any signs of it improving in the near future,” Namrata Hasija, a research fellow with the New Delhi-based Centre for China Analysis and Strategy, told The Epoch Times over the phone....