Amid all the media focus on China’s maritime territorial disputes with Japan, Vietnam and the Philippines, the world nearly forgot that China still hosts the world’s largest outstanding land border dispute with the world’s largest democracy, India.

Next month marks the 50th anniversary of the 1962 Sino-Indian war. The event will be met with little fanfare in India, where China’s surprise invasion still evokes feelings of outrage and betrayal. But the episode may be worth remembering for another reason, as the first occasion when India shed its nonaligned scruples and formed a tactical military alliance with the United States.

Washington grants China a waiver from Iran sanctions;
China Defense Minister opposes DPRK provocations

China to add Marine Surveillance ships amidst maritime disputes;
Environment Ministry laments poor water quality

China calls for calm in Sudan, ships arms to the South; 

China's BMD efforts advance; India, NATO align on missile defense; South Korea adds missile deterrent; Reassuring Russia over European defense; Turkey shuts Israel out of early warning; New Russian ICBM stumbles out of the gate

Cat-and-mouse over Gaza rockets; Taiwan scrambles for missile deterrent; Debating missile defense in Europe; Taking Russia to court over missile defense; India's missile defense grid takes shape

 Prague bows out; Riyadh eyes sea-based defenses; India eyes ballistic missile defense...; ...And offense; The seepage from Libya's arsenal; Stumbling toward "early intercept"

A new end to New START; Seoul eyes longer range strikes; Romania's quest for a missile defense role; A critical hurdle for India's missile shield; Taiwan's failed attempt at deterrence

President Barack Obama's 10-day tour through Asia is being deemed a disappointment in some Washington circles after the President failed to secure a free trade with South Korea, or forge a consensus on issues of currency manipulation and trade imbalances. However, the President's underwhelming performance in East Asia risks overshadowing his more commendable performance in South Asia, where President Obama announced that America now supports a permanent seat for India at the United Nations Security Council. The policy change was warmly received in New Delhi, where politicians have been lobbying the U.S. for such an endorsement for years (not even the Indophile Bush administration was willing to offer one). And while there is little likelihood that India's Security Council aspirations will be fulfilled anytime soon, President Obama's announcement at least temporarily silenced critics who had begun to question the President's commitment to the U.S.-India partnership.