As India aligns itself with the West, is it entering a cold war with China? | South China Morning Post

"We see the most aggressive form of imperialism functioning across our borders in India," pronounced Indian prime minister Jawaharlal Nehru at the height of border clashes with China in 1962. Stunned and outraged by Beijing's strategic offensive across the heavily-contested Himalayan borders, he accused China of "invading a friendly country without rhyme or reason or excuse and justifying it by saying that they are being attacked". After years of courting Chinese support for the international Non-Aligned Movement, Nehru called China "this so called anti-imperialist country becoming itself an imperialist of the worst kind". Despite the testy rhetoric and bloody skirmishes,…