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18 September 2014, The Globe and the Mail

Border standoff casts shadow on Chinese president’s visit to India

The Globe and the Mail quoted Professor M.D. Nalapat, Director, Department of Geopolitics, Manipal University, from an interview to Gateway House, where he predicts that Chinese President Xi Jinping’s visit to India will bring in a great deal of investment and be a step towards overcoming the negativity in the relationship

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Indian and Chinese soldiers pulled back from a stand-off on a Himalayan plateau on Thursday, helping salvage the mood during a rare visit by China’s President Xi Jinping to New Delhi aimed at opening a new phase in cooperation between Asia’s giants.

Dozens of soldiers from both sides had faced off on the Ladakh plateau in the western Himalayas for over a week in a dispute about construction in the border region that threatened to overshadow Xi’s talks with India’s new prime minister, Narendra Modi.

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