Making sense of India-China border tensions
b'India\\u2019s increased capability to patrol up to the Line of Actual Control (LAC) coupled with an increasingly assertive Chinese posture is fuelling new tensions along the border, according to former senior Indian officials.\\nIndian and Chinese troops have been involved in as many as four incidents along the LAC in recent weeks. On Monday, Chinese state media said the People\\u2019s Liberation Army was \\u201ctightening control\\u201d in one of the flashpoint areas in the western sector Galwan Valley, after it accused India of \\u201cunilaterally\\u201d changing the status quo with \\u201cillegal construction\\u201d. A build-up has also been reported in Demchok in Ladakh.\\nIn this podcast we discuss these developments and the underlying tensions.\\nAlso read: News analysis | Behind new incidents, a changed dynamic along India-China border\\nInterview by Ananth Krishnan\\nGuest: Zorawar Daulet Singh is a historian and strategic affairs scholar based in New Delhi. He is an Adjunct Fellow at the Institute of Chinese Studies and a co-founder of The Northcap University. Books include India China Relations: The Border Issue and Beyond, and Power and Diplomacy: India\\u2019s Foreign Policies during the Cold War.'