Modi Finds Neighbors Silent as India-China Tensions Simmer
- Conflict with China may lead to rethink of policy priorities
- India saw first deaths in decades on contested China border
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If Prime Minister Narendra Modi thought he could count on the public support of neighbors as he faced his most significant foreign policy challenge as India’s leader, he was mistaken.
Amid a serious escalation of tensions with China following the first fatalities along their contested border in more than four decades, a surging epidemic and an economy heading for recession, the silence of India’s traditional regional allies and partners like Bangladesh and Nepal has been deafening.