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Sea change: China has its sights on the Bay of Bengal

China has its sights on the Bay of Bengal

8 August 2020

9:00 AM

8 August 2020

9:00 AM

Pangong Lake is the most unlikely of places for a naval conflict between two of the world’s nuclear-powers, India and China, with a third, Pakistan, looking on with not a little interest.

Lying some 280 miles east of Islamabad, 360 miles north of New Delhi and 2,170 miles west of Beijing, Pangong Lake is in the remote northern Himalayas.

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Francis Pike is a historian, geopolitical adviser and the author of Empires at War: A Short History of Modern Asia Since World War II.

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