US Real-Time Intel Helps India Deal China a Defeat
Commentary
In December 2022 I wrote a column titled “India and China Clash on the Roof of the World.”
The Himalayan terrain and history where the incident that occurred Dec. 9, 2022, is obscure and complex. However, conflict between Asia’s two giants has global significance. The clash rated headlines throughout east Asia and the Pacific—headlines from Japan to Pakistan to Indonesia and Australia.
Dec. 9 details: Indian and Chinese soldiers clashed on an icy slope along the mountain border between Chinese-occupied Tibet and India’s northeastern Arunachal Pradesh state.
Communist China invaded Tibet in 1950. That invasion was the predicate to the 1962 Sino-Indian War, which China launched and won….