India’s National Security Advisor Ajit Doval travelled to Beijing this week for a fresh round of talks on the long-disputed India-China Himalayan border, marking the 25th round of Special Representative-level dialogue between the two nuclear-armed neighbours. The visit comes weeks ahead of a planned BRICS summit in New Delhi that India hopes Chinese President Xi Jinping will attend, and it has renewed public interest in the basic facts of the border itself: what it is called, how long it runs, and why the frontier through Arunachal Pradesh remains one of…
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