Reposted by Darren Lim
#India responded to the bloody clash at #Galwan in mid-2020 with hard balancing. But as I argue in this new (open access) article in @iajournal.bsky.social, it also began to disrupt and spoil Chinese initiatives in several minilaterals and multilaterals. academic.oup.com/ia/advance-a...
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India's China strategy after Galwan: minilateral and multilateral soft balancing in the Indo-Pacific
Since the 2020 clash between Chinese and Indian troops on the Line of Actual Control, India has judiciously deployed a range of soft balancing tactics agai