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When Chinese engineering troops crossed into the disputed Doklam plateau on 16 June 2017 and began extending a road southward toward the Jampheri Ridge, they triggered a 73-day military standoff that most commentators reduced to a bilateral border dispute between China and Bhutan. That framing fundamentally misreads Beijing’s strategic intent. Doklam was not a boundary quarrel. It was a calculated opening move in a long campaign to dominate the geography that holds India’s northeastern flank ...
The Road That Shook the Himalayas: How Doklam Exposed Beijing’s Blueprint for the Chicken’s Neck
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