India, Nov. 4 -- While the disengagement along the Line of Actual Control (LAC) and the cordiality between India and China at the Brics summit in Kazan are encouraging, we must not confuse tactical relief at the LAC with a strategic rapprochement. Despite this agreement - whose finer details remain unknown to the public - for India, the China challenge will only grow over time. This is because, in grand strategic terms, China represents an intellectual challenge to India that goes beyond mere balance of power considerations and the growing power differential between the two countries. There was a time when Indian thinkers believed that two rising Asian powers and old civilisations, India and China, could coexist peacefully side by side. Today, that illusion holds little traction in contemporary India, and the recent agreement on the border may do little to change that recognition....