新闻纵贯线 Today updated 20:00 2017/07/14（在线收听）

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Welcome to 'Today' - an hour of world news and analysis -- from a different perspective. I'm Jingnan

Coming up：

In the past month, China and India have been involved in an eye-ball to eye-ball stand-off along their border in the Sikkim section, with shots exchanged in Kashmir across the line of control between Indian and Pakistani forces, leading to the deaths of seven people.The border disputes between China and India, as well as those between India and Pakistan go back a long way.But what makes this current friction different? Will the current crisis pass without further damage caused? And should new mechanisms be put in place to avoid serious conflict in the future? These questions and more in this edition of Today, taking a closer look at border issues in South Asia.

For more on this, CRI' Jingnan is now joined on the line by Rong Ying, Vice Precident and senior reserch fellow at the China institute of internatioanl Studies; Zoon Ahmed Khan,Beijing-based Pakistani journalist;On the phone we have Madhav Nalapat,Professor of Geopolitics of Manipal University in India.