Bhavna Singh is a Research Officer in the China Research Programme at the Institute of Peace and Conflict Studies. She is also a Doctoral Candidate at the Chinese Division in the Centre of East Asian Studies, JNU, New Delhi.
Fifty years after the 1962 war which left bitter memories and pending border issues, relations between China and India seem to be once more under strain. With both countries caught between the wish to negotiate and to compete, the bilateral relation appears entrenched in larger security issues