Why China and India are Fighting With Clubs

Angry Planet

Matthew Gault

War, Politics, Conflict, Government, History, News

4.3 • 882 Ratings

🗓️ 5 August 2020

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

A few weeks ago, two nuclear-armed neighbors got into a fistfight. Actually, there were some clubs and other handheld weapons, too. It was bizarre and people died, more than 20 on the Indian side. The Chinese have been more coy about their numbers.

To get a grip on what happened and what it means for the future, we have Maria Abi-Habib of the New York Times on the show. Abi-Habib is a South Asia correspondent who is based in India’s capital of Delhi.

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0:20.0	China is pressuring India from all sides of its border. So I think that's going to be interesting. That's something to really watch is how
0:24.8	India manages this its own backyard because it took it for granted. It took countries like
0:31.8	Sri Lanka for granted. It took countries like it for granted it took countries like Sri Lanka for granted it
0:32.8	took countries like Nepal for granted just thought we're the biggest nation in
0:36.1	this neighborhood so they're gonna you know come to us no matter what guess what now
0:40.0	they've got China. You're listening to War College, a weekly podcast that brings you the stories from behind the front lines.
0:55.0	Here are your hosts. Hello and I'm Matthew Gault.
1:04.0	A few.
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1:07.0	Hello and welcome to War College.
1:11.0	I'm Jason Fields. And I'm Matthew Gault.
1:14.0	A few weeks ago, two nuclear-arm neighbors got into a fist fight.
1:19.0	Actually, there were some clubs and other handheld weapons too. It was bizarre and people died, more than
1:25.8	20 of them on the Indian side. The Chinese have been more coy about their numbers. To get a
1:31.0	grip on what happened and what it means for the future, we have Maria Abbeib of the New York Times on the show.
1:38.0	Abby Habib is a South Asia correspondent who is based in India's capital of Delhi.
1:43.0	Maria, thank you so much for joining us.
1:45.0	Thank you for having me.
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