ITS NO SECRET THAT INDIA AND CHINA ARE SWORN ENEMIES AS THE LARGEST DEMOCRATIC COUNTRY INDIA PITS ITSELF AGAINST THE LARGEST COMMUNIST COUNTRY BOTH BY POPULATION - AS A NUCLEAR STANDOFF IN PLAY OVER A REMOTE ROAD IN A DISPUTED TERRITORY ON THE DOKLAM PLATEAU - AS CHINA DOES ANOTHER BUILDING PROJECT OF A NEW ROAD IN THE REGION FOR A TAKEOVER - WHILST CHINA COURTS INDIA'S NEIGHBORS PAKISTAN AND BANGLADESH IN SURROUNDING THE DEMOCRATIC COUNTRY

ASK most people to name a current crisis between nuclear armed states and North Korea and the US’ rapidly worsening relations would come to mind.

But there’s another skirmish happening between two nuclear nations and both have far more fully functioning missiles, poised and ready to fire, than Kim Jong-un could even dream off.
Ten thousand feet above sea level, in the sub zero cold of the Himalayas, things could be about to turn hot.
Since mid-June, Chinese and Indian soldiers have lined up “eyeball to eyeball” on the remote Doklam plateau. In recent days, more troops have been sent to the frontline.
Currently it’s a nonlethal battle of platitudes at altitude, but commentators in China have warned, “there could be a chance of war”.
And that’s not a great prospect, given India is thought to have more than 100 nuclear tipped missiles while China’s warheads could total more than 250.
The flashpoint between the two seems mundane ——the building of a new road on the Chinese controlled, but disputed, plateau. But the last time the two went to war, half a century ago, it was also over a road.

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