India, Sept. 30 -- The Modi-Xi meeting at the BRICS summit may have revived the language of normalisation, but it has done little to resolve the fundamental distrust along the LAC. Behind the diplomatic warmth lie an unresolved boundary, altered ground realities and continuing concerns over China's grey-zone pressure

After the Trump-Xi spectacular three-day meeting, with some notable outcomes last week in Washington, the short 45-minute interaction between Modi and Xi on the sidelines of the BRICS summit this month produced little except 'feel-good'. The US and China do not share borders but have matching tactical and strategic deterrence. India and China, in contrast, have been playing a charade over the normalisation of relations and a...