China-India Faceoff a Result of Mutual Rising Ambitions

But Xi out to teach Modi a lesson

By: John Elliott

Sixty years ago, Jawaharlal Nehru, independent India’s first prime minister, thought he and China’s premier Zhou Enlai could work together as equals on the world stage – until he learned otherwise in 1962 when India was humiliatingly defeated in a brief Himalayan war by China invading its territory and then withdrawing.

Now it looks as th…