India and China: an Explosive Peace or a Cold War?

... in April 2013 when a Chinese platoon crossed the border and camped on Indian territory for a month. The incident pushed the sides to sign the Border Defense Cooperation Agreement of October 2013 that specifies basically new principles for settling border conflicts , shifting the appropriate powers from the top brass to the political leaders of the two countries. Although entirely useless as an economic entity, Aksai Chin is extremely important for China in military terms because of the road linking ...