A TALE OF TWO NARRATIVES
China’s success, or its narrative of it, in the Galwan heights border brawl can be rendered as not ‘losing face’ (). China’s semi-colonial history (late 19th and early 20th centuries’ control of its eastern seaboard by European powers and encroachment of its west by Japan and its north by Tsarist Russia) is narrated in terms of humiliation and injured pride. Contemporary ultra-nationalism finds fuel in this, and embryonic arrangements by which
