Pass impasse

摘要

For a book about two countries whose most recent war was five decades ago, "Prospects for Peace" seems a quirky subtitle. Jonathan Holslag, a Brussels-based think-tanker, argues that, since China's swift and bloody humiliation of India in 1962, the neighbours have "tottered at least five times on the verge of war". But the last time troops massed on the border was in 1986. Since then the territorial dispute that sparked the war has been "put to one side".