Background Border trade through Nathu La resumed on August 1, 2026, opening up a six-year suspension that COVID-19 had forced. The route connects India's Sikkim with Tibet, and its reopening signals a gradual restoration of economic and people-to-people exchanges after years of strained ties. The pass had first reopened during July 2006, four decades after the 1962 war shut it down. And this opening itself was seen as a major diplomatic milestone. Before 1962, it carried roughly 80 percent of...