India, June 27 -- ITBP is responsible for guarding India-China border. But Army has to underwrite the entire effort when things turn nasty.

China's border belligerence has made news around the world. It has land border disputes with India, Bhutan, Nepal (yes, Nepal too). On the eastern front, it has disputes with Taiwan, Vietnam, Philippines, Malaysia and Brunei over the Spratly and Paracel Islands and separately with Japan in Senkaku Islands.

The India-China disputed part of the border called Line of Actual Control (LAC) is spread over 3,500 km. For several decades, China concentrated on its economic development, while it continued modernising and restructuring of its Armed Forces to achieve its stated aim of replacing the United Stat...