Eyeball to Eyeball at the Top of the World
The last six months have witnessed a proliferation of incidents along the disputed Sino-Indian frontier. While fears of imminent major hostilities are clearly overblown, as China, with the Olympics looming, is unlikely to initiate a clash, Chinese officials have taken pains to assert China's claim to 92,000 square miles of Indian territory.
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NEW DELHI – When a foreign minister goes out of his way to assure reporters that there is no tension on his country’s borders with a powerful neighbor, the logical tendency is to wonder whether “the lady doth protest too much.” After all, you don’t hear Canada’s foreign minister denying tension on his country’s American frontier, because the truth of that proposition is self-evident. The claim by Indian Foreign Minister Pranab Mukherjee on a June visit to Beijing that the Sino-Indian border is tension-free has prompted cynical observers to assume the opposite.