The disengagement between Chinese and Indian forces at Galwan suggests that the Chinese strategy of creating facts on the ground and negotiating from that position seems to be working again, says the lead edit today. The key lesson from this latest skirmish is the criticality of India’s battle readiness and alertness of its security forces to safeguard territorial integrity rather than relying on personal diplomacy. Read the assessment of the post-Galwan agreement here. But the rise of Chinese irredentism has wider implications, says former foreign secretary Shyam Saran. “If Asia does become a Chinese dominated space, it is