Great Game East: India, China, and the Struggle for Asia’s Most Volatile Frontier

Since the 1950s, China and India have been locked in a monumental battle for geopolitical supremacy. Chinese interest in the ethnic insurgencies in northeastern India, the still unresolved issue of the McMahon Line, the border established by the British imperial government, and competition for strategic access to the Indian Ocean have given rise to tense gamesmanship, political intrigue, and rivalry between the two Asian giants. Former Far Eastern Economic Review correspondent Bertil Lintner has drawn from his extensive personal interviews with insurgency leaders and civilians in remote tribal areas in northeastern India, newly declassified intelligence reports, and his many years of firsthand experience in Asia to chronicle this ongoing struggle. His history of the “Great Game East” is the first significant account of a regional conflict which has led to open warfare on several occasions, most notably the Sino-India border war of 1962, and will have a major impact on global affairs in the decades ahead.

• China's India War: Collision Course on the Roof of the World
• Park Chung Hee and Modern Korea: The Roots of Militarism, 1866–1945
• China's Asian Dream: Empire Building along the New Silk Road
• How India Sees The World
• By More Than Providence: Grand Strategy and American Power in the Asia Pacific Since 1783 (A Nancy Bernkopf Tucker and Warren I. Cohen Book on American–East Asian Relations)
• The End of the Asian Century: War, Stagnation, and the Risks to the World’s Most Dynamic Region
• About Face: A History of America's Curious Relationship with China, from Nixon to Clinton
• The Chinese Invasion Threat: Taiwan's Defense and American Strategy in Asia
• The Japanese Colonial Empire, 1895-1945