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Wednesday, November 5, 2025
TopicIndia-China border

Topic: India-China border

‘Danger remains’, warns global think tank with India-China border standoff set to enter its 4th year

Brussels-based International Crisis Group warns of troop and infrastructure build-up on both sides in its 14 November report. It recommends resuming dialogue to defuse the situation.

Modi’s legacy is on the line now. He must shed passive approach to China’s border dominance

India faces no existential threat or substantial loss of territory. Engaging in brinkmanship can even reduce the probability of a limited war.

Matching China’s defence will take a long time. Until then, tunnel warfare is Army’s solution

Indian Army should exploit tunnel warfare to 'stalemate China’ or 'neutralise asymmetry' in high-end military technology.

Why India’s strategic depth is of little value—from Pakistan to China borders

What if a country has neither strategic depth, nor a friendly neighbour? Faced with such a situation, this depth has to be created by occupying territories.

On Ladakh standoff, India, China talking differently this time. Something bigger is on menu

In all the flurry, should there be an agreement centred around a pullback of positions, its long-term ramifications must be understood.

India, China talks fail to make headway on Depsang but both sides agree to freeze build-up

19th round of talks came ahead of PM Modi & Xi's visit to Johannesburg for BRICS Summit later this month, to be followed by latter's visit to India for G20 Summit in September.

Army to follow amended SOPs for counter-insurgency ops in Northeast, says Eastern Command chief

Lt Gen RP Kalita says situation along northern border with China is ‘quite stable’ & Army has ‘increased deployment’ along Indo-Myanmar border.

Why India’s border standoff with China reveals Modi weakness. It’s the economy, stupid

How far does India want to escalate border tensions, in the full knowledge that Xi won’t show up at G20 if Delhi pushes the tipping point?

India, China discuss proposals for disengagement along Line of Actual Control

This was the first in-person meeting of the Working Mechanism for Consultation & Coordination on India-China Border Affairs (WMCC) since 2019, & was held Wednesday in Beijing.

9,400 more personnel, new operational base for ITBP — how India plans to strengthen hold on LAC

Hirings will allow ITBP to raise 7 new border battalions. Move comes days after Leh superintendent of police reported India lost access to 26 of 65 patrolling points along LAC with China.

On Camera

Indians have a complicated relationship with Zohran Mamdani

Mamdani’s politics feels unusual compared to India’s current climate. He unapologetically foregrounds Muslim identity at a time when doing so in India invites scrutiny.

What does NCLAT order mean for data-sharing ban, penalty imposed by CCI on Meta & WhatsApp

On 4 November 2025, NCLAT bench, comprising Chairperson Justice Ashok Bhushan and Member Arun Baroka, noted that WhatsApp and Meta are distinct legal entities.

‘Let them see’: Putin says new nuclear-powered missiles in the making, in message to Washington

At a ceremony felicitating Russian military engineers, Putin highlights Moscow’s 'parity' in defence technologies for the next century.

Trump’s trade wars have rewritten powerplay, but India didn’t get the memo

This world is being restructured and redrawn by one man, and what’s his power? It’s not his formidable military. It’s trade. With China, it turned on him.