INDIA-CHINA BROADER FLARE-UP: A CHALLENGE TO IRAN

In the new phase of global re-alignment, the two largest South Asia countries, China and India are at large heads with each other because of changing geo-political arrangements and recent border clashes. The current border crisis is the worst situation and highest escalation between the two countries after the 1962 war. Although in past the border forces of the countries have clashed with each other but those clashes never resulted in killing of soldiers and change in status quo of the border. However, the recent clashes between the forces have resulted in everything that did not happened in past, not only left twenty Indian soldiers died, more than fifty were injured and imprisonment of ten Indian soldiers but it also changed the status quo of the de facto border namely the ‘Line of Actual Control’ by capturing 40 square miles by China of the territory claimed by India, development of infrastructure in shape of construction of roads and permanent bankers in the territory which was regarded as buffer zone as well as unprece-dented increase in the number of troops along weapons and artillery on both the sides. India and China border dispute involves about 13,500 square miles on In-dia’s Northern side along the Ladakh and 35,000 square miles on India’s Eas-tern side along the state of Arunachal Pradesh (Shukla, 2020). Since the 1962 war between India and China, both the countries managed their border disputes very well, therefore the question arises why it happened now? And what kind of challenge it is posing to the future of decades old Iran-India relations. Here an attempt has been made to analyse the regional and global events that has resulted in the border clashes and crisis in the China-India relationship.