[zapdrive]

Things change over time. China and India have been having multiple talks over the last few years (after the Galwan incident) to resolve their border dispute. The ceasefire has lasted for decades now. Neither country wants war. Of course there will always be a dispute, but a long long term line of actual control will be determined and respected by both sides without giving up their respective claims.

[alephnerd]

India-China relations have been normalizing in the aftermath of the Galwan crisis in 2020, but India and China are direct competitors for influence in plenty of countries across the Indo-Pacific Region (eg. Nepal, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Maldives, Afghanistan, Myanmar, Tanzania, KSA, Iran).

Furthermore, China will continue to back Pakistan no matter what - there is too much Chinese investment in Pakistan that makes it difficult to write off the relationship. As long as Pakistan and China remain extremely close economic and defense partners and India has a competitive relationship with Pakistan, there will always be the fear of a 2 Front War.

Even before the Galwan crisis, the relationship was precarious. The only difference was the Chinese private sector was allowed to operate, before being forced out of India - causing Chinese companies like Xiaomi, Oppo, Byd, etc to lose a MASSIVE market for them to the expense of Japanese, Korean, American, and Indian competitors.

Normalization basically means rolling the clock back to 2020 and preventing a war from accidentally sparking because of a mutual lack of disciple from soldiers on the frontline, but Chinese companies are still shit out of luck to operate, now that they mostly sold their Indian operations to Indian conglomerates like Reliance Group, Tata Group, etc.

[extraduder_ire]

There is a ceasefire, yes. But there is still occasional fighting at the border, it's just all melee weapons to prevent escalation.

I saw a twitter video of it about a year or so ago, it's pretty intense.