Book Review : How India Sees The World - Sham Saran
India and China, collectively account for 2.8 billion of the world's 7.9 billion people, roughly 35% of our planet's population. These Asian behemoths also share a contentious and undemarcated border whose length roughly 2,100 miles slightly longer than the border between the US and Mexico, this long border has served as the source of tension between the two countries, including of course, a war in 1962 and most recently an ongoing dispute beginning in 2020 that resulted in the deaths Indian as well as Chinese soldiers, the first of troop casualties in decades. But despite of dispute the trade between the two has increased and touched new scale. As per China's general administration of customs, total trade between India and China in 2021 stood at over 125 billion US dollars, up 40% from 2020 and driven by growth of exports in both directions. Provisional data from India's Ministry of Commerce also shows similarly, total trade crossing over 114 billion US dollars, st...