US-China Rivalry Not The Same As US-Soviet. What India Needs To Watch Out

The potential visit of Nancy Pelosi, Speaker of the US House of Representatives, to Taiwan could turn out to be one of those moments where it doesn’t matter which side is right or wrong. At the height of the Cuban Missile Crisis, Soviet leader Nikita Khruschev wrote to US President John F. Kennedy, telling him that if both sides continue to ‘pull on the ends of the rope’, the knot in the middle will only get tighter and the crisis more difficult to resolve. Read More…