Xi has picked a border fight with India that China cannot win

Brahma Chellaney is a professor of strategic studies at the New Delhi-based Center for Policy Research The international focus on the war in Ukraine has helped obscure the China-India military confrontation, which has led to rival force build-ups and intermittent clashes. For more than three years, the two Asian giants have been locked in a tense military standoff along their disputed Himalayan frontier. The risk of this confrontation escalating to intense bloody clashes or even a limited border war can no longer be discounted, given the large-scale forward military deployments by both sides. An opposite scenario is also conceivable. If…