For fifty years, India has been seen as the provocateur of the 1962 Sino-Indian conflict. This idea has been largely reinforced by Neville Maxwell’s seminal work India’s China War, which proposed that China was merely defending its territory. Bertil Lintner’s China’s India War offers a strong rebuttal to this view. Offering an entirely new perspective, Lintner argues that the ‘border dispute’ was merely a small move in the larger strategic game that China was playing to become a world player—one that it continues to play even today.