Now, in a marked escalation of tensions, the two nuclear-armed states are accusing each other of firing warning shots at the frontier. In June, a deadly clash left 20 Indian soldiers and an unknown number of Chinese soldiers killed in the worst cross-border violence in decades. In the barren reaches of the Himalayas, Chinese and Indian patrols keep coming to blows. The violence in the Himalayas between India and China points to a rapidly deteriorating relationship – could it lead the nuclear powers to seek new geopolitical alignments? Initiative at the New Delhi-based Observer Research Foundation Guest: Dhruva Jaishankar, Director of the U.S.
