July 9, 2017

The current China-India border row shows that the Indian leadership has once again invoked the so-called border incursion issue under the "China threat" theory to appease its domestic and international audience. It is an old tactic which successive Indian leaders have used.

The issue came up first in the late 1950s and the early 1960s when the unmarked China-India border issue first surfaced. India used the "China threat" to curry favor with both the capitalist and the communist blocs. Two big powers of the time, the US and the USSR, out of their hostility toward China, provided large-scale military and economic assistance to India to be used against China.

The issue flared again before the nuclear tests in May 1998. Then Indian prime minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee used the issue to cover India's hegemonic design and ambitions for nuclear weapons.

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