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

... approach to its northern neighbor. Cold Peace Although attempts at a settlement were made in the 1990s and 2000s, armed clashes along the line of control occurred nonstop, the latest 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 ...