In spite of discreet efforts from the Indian government to tone down the border confrontations between Indian and Chinese troops, the story has continued to stay in the headlines. Some such clashes are inevitable as both countries ramp up infrastructure spending on their respective sides of the border. A more sensible and less extreme approach must be devised that ensures that these incidents do not poison Indo-Chinese relations more generally. As the foreign secretary reportedly said, such incidents have happened before, and both governments will have to continue to manage their fallout.
However, there is one additional wrinkle to this particular
