A resurgent dispute over an Indian state that China claims as its own is threatening to explode into a bloodier fight. 
There is perhaps no country more feared and less understood in India than China. In recent weeks New Delhi newspapers and television have been awash with stories about the People's Liberation Army crossing the Himalayas to daub rocks with Chinese characters, making daredevil helicopter raids to drop (stale) tinned food on hapless farmers, and trading gunfire with Indian soldiers.
There is perhaps no country more feared and less understood in India than China. In recent weeks New Delhi newspapers and television have been awash with stories about the People's Liberation Army crossing the Himalayas to daub rocks with Chinese characters, making daredevil helicopter raids to drop (stale) tinned food on hapless farmers, and trading gunfire with Indian soldiers. 
India's Kashmir state government, apparently, said its territory was being taken "inch by inch" through such incursions. Ominously, authorities last week in Kolkata [Calcutta] impounded a plane carrying arms from the Middle East to China. While the foreign ministries in both countries play down the reports, there are concerns that left unchecked, things could spiral out of control. More>>
