NEW DELHI: During the recent Chinese aggression in Ladakh, it was the United States that provided additional and real-time intelligence to Indian agencies in the form of detailed satellite imagery that captured the movement and positions of the PLA troops in the region. This assistance isn’t surprising as the intelligence cooperation between India and goes back nearly 60 years. In this edition of ‘Simply Nitin’, StratNews Global Editor-in-Chief Nitin A. Gokhale describes how it all began during another Chinese aggression in 1962 and instances when the two countries collaborated thereafter.
