Development of north-east must look beyond China

Mar 20, 2022 | 21:01 IST

How rebranding the discourse on connectivity is imperative to meet the China challenge

Recent Chinese moves – such as renaming districts in Arunachal Pradesh or the viral video of the PLA unfurling the Chinese flag in Galwan as a New Year’s greeting – tell us 2022 will be more of the same in India-China relations. As India and China negotiate this new normal, what New Delhi really needs is a new discourse on border connectivity. While strategic aims naturally guide the agenda, the conversation must be reimagined with local needs and context. This requires humanising our borders and a deeper awareness of our frontier states.

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Development of north-east must look beyond China

How rebranding the discourse on connectivity is imperative to meet the China challenge

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