The countries went to war over the boundary in the Himalayas in 1962. Despite an uneasy truce and a “Line of Actual Control,” clashes still erupt.
One Indian officer and two soldiers were killed by Chinese troops late Monday in a clash along the disputed India-China border, the first such episode in decades, military experts said. The violence is a continuation of a decades-old dispute between the two nuclear powers over the precise location of their Himalayan border.
Six decades ago, India and China went to war over a border dispute that ended with an uneasy truce in 1962.
While no border has ever officially been negotiated along the forbidding stretch of land high in the Himalayas that divides the two nations, the truce established a 2,100-mile-long Line of Actual Control.
Since then, an uneasy peace has held. But every time there is a flare-up of violence, the world watches anxiously.
China and India are the two most populous nations on earth, both armed with nuclear weapons, led by governments that have built support, in large part, by appeals to nationalist sentiment.
In recent months, tensions have spilled over into brawls between soldiers. And late Monday, the violence reached dangerous heights when an Indian Army officer and two soldiers were killed by Chinese troops.
