Ideas By Michael Kugelman November 17, 2024 5:00 AM EST Michael Kugelman is director of the South Asia Institute at the Wilson Center. I n June 2020, a bloody border clash broke out between India and China in the Ladakh region—the deadliest since a 1962 war. Relations between the nuclear-armed neighbors plunged to their lowest level in decades. But, after four years of icy ties, the relationship is finally beginning to thaw. India and China struck a border deal last month that calls for