In a commentary, P. S. Suryanarayana, an Adjunct Senior Fellow with the RSIS wrote about the China-India border crisis. China and India have relentlessly confronted each other since they clashed in the western sector of their disputed boundary in June, he said. To avert war, a viable confidence-building option not considered by either side, is mutual accommodation. In this formula, both sides can keep their recent military ‘gains’ until the boundary is amicably settled.

…P S Suryanarayana is an Adjunct Senior Fellow with the S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies (RSIS), Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore. He is author of ‘Smart Diplomacy: Exploring China-India Synergy’.