Guwahati, Aug. 23 -- When a friend called me rather late on August 22, 2025, to inform me that the latest dialogue between India and China "has decided to resolve the border through a piece-meal approach rather than a broad resolution so that an early harvest adds to confidence building between the two Asian giants," he also quipped, "Isn't the communique by the two Asian giants exactly what you had been recommending by way of your 'Line of Amity' concept between India and China in a sub-sector rather than in a one-fell-swoop resolution of the entire 3,488 India-China boundary?"

Indeed, this friend had not only heard about my "Line of Amity" proposal-that I had conceived and flagged in the "Track II Dialogue" with China in 2014 in which ...