• Indian Army vehicles transit the Chang La mountain pass in Kashmir near the border with China on Wednesday. Beijing and New Delhi held top level talks that day to 'cool down the situation' following a violent border brawl on Monday that left at least 20 Indian soldiers dead. | AFP-JIJI
    Indian Army vehicles transit the Chang La mountain pass in Kashmir near the border with China on Wednesday. Beijing and New Delhi held top level talks that day to "cool down the situation" following a violent border brawl on Monday that left at least 20 Indian soldiers dead. | AFP-JIJI
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London – Never bring a knife to a gunfight, the saying goes, but China does it differently. It brings clubs.

Last Monday, China and India had the nastiest frontier incident since their border war of 1962. In the Galwan Valley of the Aksai Chin, a disputed region the size of Switzerland in the western Himalayas, Chinese and Indian border patrols clashed and 20 Indian soldiers were killed — yet not a shot was fired. The killing was all done with clubs, stones and bare hands.

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