Daily Memo: Clarity on the Himalayan Skirmish, More Confusion in Korea

The details of the deadly India-China brawl still aren't great, but at least it didn't involve guns.

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Sticks, stones and 15,000-foot cliffs. As it turns out, the first casualties since 1975 in the India-China Himalayan standoff came not from a firefight, as assumed. (This is important, as it would have meant one or both sides had broken a mutual protocol that bars troops in the area from carrying firearms, potentially presaging a […]

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