Daily Memo: Frozen Deployments in the Himalayas, Lukashenko’s Secret Inauguration

There were a couple of glaring omissions from the joint Sino-Indian statement.

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China and India freeze troop deployments. Senior Chinese and Indian military officials agreed to refrain from sending additional troops to their contested border between Ladakh and Tibet, according to a joint statement released Tuesday. This can’t hurt the prospects of preventing additional violence between China and India in the high Himalayas, but neither will it […]

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