Publication

The resumption of the Nathu La border trade in July 2006 after the 1962 Sino-Indian conflict marked a new direction in bilateral relations between the two neighbors. Today, Nathu La has become the only border trade post linking India’s Northeast with TAR and Southwest China. However, there is a huge different between the potential of trade and the actual performance. This paper aims to explore whether the Nathu La border trade has run off its steam or yet to take-off to realize its full potentials.