The Critical Indian

Sino-Indian Border Conflict—a conflict that's lasted for more than seven decades Two Asian Giants: India and China India and China—the two giant Asian  economies, are both ancient civilisations that evolved as modern republics in the mid-twentieth century. From the warring states within, to the whip of imperial colonialism; both have had a long history of wars and subjugation. This was followed by the rise of nationalism and a push for self-dependence. Home to one-third of the world’s population, both nations have since emerged as rising powers with burgeoning economies (2nd and 5th largest, respectively, as per GDP numbers) in the last decade and continue to grow. Militarily strong, both nations are nuclear-armed and aggressively expanding their conventional arsenal, vying for influence not just regionally but on a global scale. In fact, China on that front has most certainly leapfrogged - leveraging its human capital, industrial boom, and, more importantly, trade as a means to ma