India is finding itself at the forefront of an international effort to contain an ascendant, increasingly aggressive China, with New Delhi playing a big role in a formerly dormant diplomatic alliance in the process of transforming itself into a military one.
As the two nuclear powers – and world’s most populous countries – dial up the rhetoric and flex their muscles in a long-simmering dispute over their long, nebulous border, the situation risks boiling over again and has pushed India closer to the West in its dealings with China – an extraordinary pivot for a country that was once a leader of the “non-aligned movement,” a forum for countries that wanted no part of the polarized world of the Cold War. Read More…
