Nirupama Rao and Lin Minwang on the great India-China face-off

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Nirupama Rao and Lin Minwang discuss the longstanding and complex India-China relations, focusing on history, politics, border disputes, Pakistan, and ties with the broader region.

Welcome to Open Dialogue, a series from the South China Morning Post where we bring together leading voices to discuss the stories and subjects occupying international headlines. In this edition, we invited a leading Chinese scholar of South Asian affairs and a former Indian foreign secretary and ambassador to China to reflect on the deep fault lines in India-China relations. They debate whether the biggest barrier is history or politics, clash over the border, Pakistan and India’s ties with the...