Wait, plan, fight: How India can mean business with China after LAC clash

India is limiting trade with China after violent military clashes in Ladakh and China signalling its disregard for economic ties. What should be India's long-term strategy? Harsh V Pant explores

As India comes to terms with Chinese border aggression, New Delhi is working on a number of options across a range of domains in order to impose costs on Beijing for its misadventure. One sector in focus is trade and economics. It is indeed ironical that this should be the case as one of the claims made by those supporting greater economic engagement has been that it induces cooperative behaviour between state actors. For a relationship like India and China's, which has been fundamentally fractured since 1962, economic ties were viewed as the much-needed balm that would reduce distrust. Today