A new Cold War in the Indian Ocean

China settles its border with other countries when it needs strategic advantage. And they cannot separate China's border policies from its domestic policies and its regional, global ambitions

Bertil Lintner, journalist and expert on East Asia, tells Aditi Phadnis that the Sino-Indian war of 1962 was a move by China to stem India’s rise — and so is the One Belt, One Road initiative. Edited excerpts:
 
Neville Maxwell has already written a book: India’s China War. There have been other books too. What gave you the idea to write a book called China’s India War?
 
That they (previous books) were all wrong! The war was not provoked by Jawaharlal Nehru’s forward policy at all. The Chinese had other things they were more concerned about. We have