South Asia and Beyond

The Violent Face-Off: What Next?

Nitin A. Gokhale
June 16, 2020 - 4:03 pm
1 minute read

NEW DELHI: Hours after disturbing news came in of a violent face-off that took place on Monday night between Indian and Chinese soldiers with casualties on both sides, StratNewsGlobal Editor-in-Chief Nitin Gokhale speaks to Lt. Gen. K T Parnaik (Retd) on what possibly happened and what should be the roadmap ahead after this violent episode.

The loss of lives on the Indian side includes an officer and two soldiers. Senior military officials of the two sides are currently meeting at the venue to defuse the situation.

China, meanwhile, has alleged that the Indian troops crossed the border line on June 15 twice, and provoked and attacked Chinese personnel which led to serious physical conflict between the two sides.

Nitin A. Gokhale

Left to himself, Nitin A. Gokhale would rather watch films and sports matches but his day job as a media entrepreneur, communications specialist, analyst and author, leaves him little time to indulge in his primary interests. Gokhale in fact started his career in journalism in 1983 as a sports reporter. Since then he has, in the past 41 years, traversed the entire spectrum across print, broadcast and digital space. One of South Asia's leading strategic analysts, Gokhale has moved on from conventional media to become an independent media entrepreneur running three niche digital platforms—BharatShakti, StratNewsGlobal and Interstellar—besides undertaking consultancy and training workshops in communications for military institutions, corporates and individuals. Now better known for his conflict coverage and strategic analyses, Gokhale has lived and reported from India’s North-east for 23 years between 1983 and 2006, been on the ground at Kargil in the summer of 1999 and also brought us live coverage from Sri Lanka’s Eelam War IV between 2006-2009. An alumni of the Asia-Pacific Centre for Security Studies in Hawaii, Gokhale now writes, lectures and analyses security and strategic matters in Indo-Pacific and travels regularly to US, Europe, Australia, South and South-East Asia to take part in various seminars and conferences. Gokhale is also a popular visiting faculty at India’s Defence Services Staff College, the three war colleges, India's National Defence College, College of Defence Management and the IB’s intelligence school.